September 19, 2007
Launching the Space Age
The Space Age began in earnest fifty years ago, with the launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik on October 4, 1957....
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September 19, 2007
The Space Age began in earnest fifty years ago, with the launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik on October 4, 1957....
September 19, 2007
Not long ago, the notion of any entity other than a government putting a payload — let alone a human being — into...
September 19, 2007
One of the more exasperating characteristics of the biblical God is that He, inferior to greater souls in this regard,...
September 19, 2007
When Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World was first published seventy-five years ago, the critical reception was...
June 20, 2007
Today, despite America’s three-decades-long national War on Drugs, we are still in the midst of what many have...
June 20, 2007
Liza Mundy’s harrowing new book, Everything Conceivable, has the air of an exposé. Forget all those...
June 20, 2007
Steve Talbott’s new book Devices of the Soul is, first, a careful and illuminating examination of technological...
June 20, 2007
In 2001, Cambridge University Press published a book-length examination of environmental trends and other indicia of...
March 21, 2007
In the past half century, the practice of medicine has been radically transformed by new techniques and discoveries,...
March 21, 2007
In his invaluable Reader’s Manifesto, literary critic B. R. Myers, skewering current literary fads, offers a...