May 24, 2009
At the Gates of a Magical Garden
In the sixth book of the Odyssey, the shipwrecked Odysseus washes ashore in Phaeacia, naked and exhausted. Directed by...
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May 24, 2009
Down in Flames
The head-on collision on February 21, 2008 of a ship-launched U.S. missile and a derelict U.S. spy satellite created...
October 23, 2008
Notes & Briefs
The movement of scientific journals to the Internet is narrowing the scope of research, according to a recent article...
October 21, 2008
Capturing Carbon
Most proposals for mitigating the effects of climate change aim to decrease the atmospheric concentration of carbon...
October 21, 2008
Staying Afloat
In March 1997, Wired magazine, ever the zealous prophet of near-future consumer tech, breathlessly trumpeted the...
October 21, 2008
‘Categories of Warfare Are Blurring’
In an address at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C. on September 29, 2008, Secretary of Defense Robert...
August 13, 2008
An Animal to Save the World
Lawyers at the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD), an Arizona-based environmental group, spent years looking for...
August 13, 2008
Taking the Earth’s Temperature
How do we know anything about the Earth’s past climate? Discussions about climate change — its extent, its...
August 13, 2008
‘Leadership from the Bottom’
On June 30, 2008, author and agrarian advocate Wendell Berry appeared on a panel at the Hudson Institute’s Bradley...
August 13, 2008
Notes & Briefs
In Yemen, she is known everywhere as “Jane” (sometimes, “the Zionist Novak”). Her picture sells...