March 21, 2007
The Problem with Plagiarism
In 2004, 17-year-old Kaavya Viswanathan signed a two-book deal with Little, Brown on the basis of a few drafted...
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March 21, 2007
Political Pseudoscience
In The Flight from Reality, Ian Shapiro casts a critical eye upon important trends in the social sciences, political...
January 3, 2007
January 3, 2007
Psychiatry’s Healer
Hanging prominently at the Johns Hopkins Meyer library is the portrait of Dr. Paul McHugh. McHugh served as the...
January 3, 2007
Our Childless Dystopia
P. D. James’s 1993 novel, The Children of Men, was an insightful if not entirely satisfactory look at the world we...
January 3, 2007
Immortality Lite
Two Mayan-themed movies reached multiplexes this Christmas, which might be a sign of the apocalypse — especially...
January 3, 2007
Theory Wars, Again
Barbara Herrnstein Smith is an academic polymath, with books on everything from how poems end to the dynamics of...
September 20, 2006
Beyond the Right to Life
Even the most complacent observers of the contemporary scene know that we find ourselves in a time of extraordinary...
September 20, 2006
September 20, 2006
Cloning’s Apologist
Ten years have passed since the birth of Dolly the sheep, the first mammal cloned from an adult, on July 5, 1996. The...