In Essence
Cinderella has been remade to fit the sensibilities of many different times...even our own.
Americans' own patriotism often makes them blind to the nationalism of other nations.
Scientists are discovering new ways to boost the brain's natural abilities, but ethicists are concerned.
How much did James Watson and Francis Crick rely on Rosalind Franklin’s 1953 x-ray photographs to fashion their model of DNA’s double helix structure?
Forced sterilization of imbeciles by U.S. states was once affirmed by the Supreme Court, but the science behind the practice has been shown to be flawed.
Scoring doctors' cardiology success seemed like a good idea, until truly sick patients began being turned away.
Will the United States heed the nation-building lessons learned at the end of World War II?
Was T. S. Eliot anti-Semitic? The question still rages fiercely, as does the debate over its consequences.
Labor needs “to become once again a social movement,” argues one political scientist.
A new study suggests that Broadway success is due to many fickle factors.
Are married people really more happy?
Are "lucky" people really different from others?
Some people get all the breaks when it comes to financial fortune, but is that really fair?
Information Technology was supposed to revolutionize business. It hasn's worked out that way.
Europe's reluctance to join the U.S.-led coalition against Iraq had much to do with its Muslim population.
The good news? There are more women in prison.
Government incentives and a move to technology and telecommunications have helped fuel the Irish economy.
Where the 20th century ranks in terms of temperature is a critical point in the ongoing debate over global warming.
The UN Security Council ruptured over Iraq because its legalist structure could not overcome friction among its member nations.
There seems to be an increasing divide between America and Europe over how to deal with the world's problems.
Latin American political power has been shifting to the local level, but undermining the national political parties.
The 9/11 terrorist attacks prompted a debate over security and liberty, but that debate has been wrongly framed and needlessly divisive.
Hierarchical companies were once viewed as the key to America's economic success, but they now seem a relic of the past.
"Issues in Economics" by Katharine Bradbury and Jane Katz, in Regional Review (2002: Qtr. 4), Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 600 Atlantic Ave., Boston, Mass. 02106.
The early take on media "embedding."
In the period following the Protestant Reformation, private worship sites helped pave the way for religious toleration.
Book Reviews
GULAG: A History. By Anne Applebaum. Doubleday. 677 pp. $35
STALIN’S LOYAL EXECUTIONER: People’s Commissar Nikolai Ezhov, 1895–1940. By Marc Jansen and Nikita Petrov. Hoover Institution Press. 274 pp. $25
THE DIARY OF GEORGI DIMITROV, 1933–1949. Edited by Ivo Banac. Yale Univ. Press. 495 pp. $39.95
By Paul Elie. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 555 pp. $27
FAITH IN POLITICS. By A. James Reichley. Brookings Institution Press. 429 pp. $52.95 cloth, $20.95 paper
THE NEW ANTI-CATHOLICISM: The Last Acceptable Prejudice. By Philip Jenkins. Oxford Univ. Press. 258 pp. $27
NO END TO WAR: Terrorism in the 21st Century. By Walter Laqueur. Continuum. 288 pp. $24.95
DEMOCRACY AND THE NEWS. By Herbert J. Gans. Oxford Univ. Press. 168 pp. $26
PEEKING THROUGH THE KEYHOLE: The Evolution of North American Homes. By Avi Friedman and David Krawitz. McGill-Queens Univ. Press. 212 pp. $24.95
GREENBACK: The Almighty Dollar and the Invention of America. By Jason Goodwin. Holt. 320 pp. $26
NOBODY’S PERFECT: A New Whig Interpretation of History. By Annabel Patterson. Yale Univ. Press. 288 pp. $27.50
SCIENCE IN THE SERVICE OF HUMAN RIGHTS. By Richard Pierre Claude. Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 267 pp. $42.50
SCIENCE IN THE SERVICE OF HUMAN RIGHTS. By Richard Pierre Claude. Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 267 pp. $42.50
THE EDEN EXPRESS: A Memoir of Insanity. By Mark Vonnegut. Seven Stories. 301 pp. $13.95 paper
MIDNIGHT LIGHTNING: Jimi Hendrix and the Black Experience. By Greg Tate. Lawrence Hill Books. 157 pp. $18.95
READING LOLITA IN TEHRAN: A Memoir in Books. By Azar Nafisi. Random House. 347 pp. $23.95
Essays
Cheap food, widely available, would seem to be the promise of new technologies, but it comes with a host of hidden dangers.
Farmers today face critical choices about how they will farm--and their decisions affect not only how much they grow but where they can sell their produce.
The food industry's aggressive marketers have made gorging a national pastime.
Will genetically engineered foods eliminate world hunger--or cause problems we can't even predict?
Americans like to think of themselves as a pragmatic people, with little use for professors and fancy ideas. Yet they also live and die for abstractions such as freedom and equality. That’s not just some inexplicable paradox but a key to understanding the American intellectual landscape.
In Hollywood war movies of the 1940s, American soldiers fought for a sense of national purpose. In subsequent decades, they fought mainly for the sake of their buddies. Now, when the mayhem in war films is more realistic than ever, Hollywood seems unwilling to give the violence a larger context.
Two hundred years ago, amid a dramatic clash of great principles and great men in the early Republic, Marbury v. Madison established the doctrine of judicial review. The case and its implications are still hotly debated today.