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Falling Behind In Science?
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 Relations at Boston University, West Point graduate, Vietnam veteran, and author,
The New American Militarism: How Americans are Seduced by War (Oxford University Press, 2005)
- agrees with John Murtha
» Michael Ledeen (The American Enterprise Institute)
» Andrew Bacevich (Boston University)
Borrow, Spend, Plunge
Chris Swann, US economics correspondent for 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" in math and science education in America
» "The Truth About the Colleges" by Andrew Hacker in the New York Review of Books
» The New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University
» Shirley Ann Jackson (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
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)
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