Twenty-five years ago, Illinois scientist Carl Woese identified an entirely new form of life. His discovery upended the traditional notion that all living things on Earth fall into five kingdoms andchallenged our understanding of evolution and the origin of life. All he had to do was persuade his fellow scientists.
The peripatetic hero of The Adventures of Augie March spoke in an idiom entirely new to American literature--an astonishing mix of the high-flown and the low-down. Christopher Hitchens explains why, after almost half a century, Augie remains vibrant and irresistible.
Time may be running out on the effort to reconcile the dream of a united Europe with the reality of a Europe that is large and highly diverse.
In the age-old quest for evidence of a harmonious universe, astronomers and others have gone to unusual lengths.
Reflections on the Persian Gulf War from an officer who served in Operation Desert Storm.
Essays
On the 10th anniversary of the triumphant end of the Persian Gulf War, and only months before 9/11, Andrew J. Bacevich wrote this prophetic critique of the new conception of America’s role in the world he said had emerged from the victory. Bacevich wrote a number of articles for the WQ after he retired as a colonel from the Army in the 1990s.
Alarmingly high rates of disease and death, along with very low birth rates, threaten Russia´s survival as a nation.
At the beginning of the 21st century, America is, more than ever, a culture of exhibitionism that also claims to...
So strong is the American aversion to "socialized medicine" that neither major candidate in this year...
In this era of rapidly expanding information technologies, telemarketing is only one of the more annoying ways a person's privacy can be breached.