“Why Nature & Nurture Won’t Go Away” by Steven Pinker, in Daedalus (Fall 2004), Norton’s Woods, 136 Irving St., Cambridge, Mass. 02138.
John Lukacs examines why "liberal" has become such a dirty word.
The Booker Prize--still one of Britain's premier literary awards--is increasingly coming under scrutiny, and suffering a bit under the attention.
Many African nations, by necessity, import food to feed their populations, but more could be done to promote home-grown products.
Nuclear proliferation remains a threat, despite global efforts to prevent or preempt.
The 1996 federal reform of welfare was supposed to reduce dependency on government benefits, but that may not be happening.
Architects divide into "rads" and "trads" but no one seems to be building for the here and now.
Despite instant global communications, goods still travel at a comparatively plodding pace.
Mixed-race offspring in colonial America came less from master-slave relationships than from white servants pairing with slaves or former slaves.