In recent weeks, a flurry of newspaper editorials have appeared, fretting that American Universities are not turning out enough graduates in science. Some even attribute our ignorance of quarks to an elitist intellectual preference for arts and literature.
Is Iraq More Like Somalia or Vietnam?
Michael Ledeen, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and author,The War Against the Terror Masters: Why It Happened, Where We Are Now, How We'll Win(St. Martin's Press, 2002)
- on Rep. Murtha's comments on the Iraq war
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Andrew Bacevich director of the Center for International ...
- on Rep. Murtha's comments on the Iraq war
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Andrew Bacevich director of the Center for International ...
Borrow, Spend, Plunge
Chris Swann, US economics correspondent for the Financial Times
- on the plunge in consumer borrowing
» The Financial Times
- on the plunge in consumer borrowing
» The Financial Times
All Arts and No Science Makes America a Dull Country?
Andrew Hacker, professor of political science at Queens College and contributor to the New York Review of Books
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Lawrence Weschler, director of the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU
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Shirley Ann Jackson, president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- on the "crisis" ...
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Lawrence Weschler, director of the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU
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Shirley Ann Jackson, president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- on the "crisis" ...
Choose Or Lose
Barry Schwartz professor of psychology at Swarthmore College and author, The Paradox Of Choice: Why More Is Less (Harper Perennial, 2005)
» Barry Schwartz (Swarthmore)
» Barry Schwartz (Swarthmore)
Photo File: Ren Weschler
The humanities, my friends, are inseparable from the sciences.
Required Reading: December 8, 2005
Menendez is Corzine's pick for Senate (The Record)
Shooting at Miami Airport opens debate on role of air marshals (Washington Post)
Observers wonder whether Rice torture statements signify new policy (NY Times)
Transit worker rep says of MTA offer, "they have declared war" (NY Daily News)
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