Is there any connection between the way we think and the way we live? Surely yes, but do biographers know what the connections are?… Read the rest
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Dawkins or Gould
Jun 9th, 2002 | Filed by Ophelia BensonWhat is and what is not at issue in the disagreements.… Read the rest
Darwin and Jesus mix?
May 10th, 2002 | Filed by Ophelia BensonMichael Ruse says they can.… Read the rest
Aesthete
May 8th, 2002 | Filed by Ophelia BensonCynthia Ozick believes stories occupy a realm separate from life, and that includes politics.… Read the rest
Hitchens on Amis Major
May 2nd, 2002 | Filed by Ophelia BensonKingsley Amis thought of boredom as a form of tyranny.… Read the rest
Meritocracy
Apr 20th, 2002 | Filed by Ophelia BensonPhilosophers and political theorists disagree with popular belief that special rewards are deserved.… Read the rest
Gitlin Meets Fallows
Apr 15th, 2002 | Filed by Ophelia BensonAnd they talk about media saturation.… Read the rest
Middle Mind
Dec 10th, 2001 | Filed by Ophelia BensonFunny, ruthless dissection of the ‘Fresh Air’ mindset.… Read the rest
Dwight Macdonald
Nov 30th, 2001 | Filed by Ophelia BensonRight when he said no, wrong when he said yes.… Read the rest
Lingua Franca
Nov 20th, 2001 | Filed by Ophelia BensonJudith Shulevitz on making a magazine weird.… Read the rest
Multiculti lite
Nov 19th, 2001 | Filed by Ophelia BensonA global education? Or merely a little Arundhati Roy here, a little Toni Morrisson there.… Read the rest
Magical energy in alternative medicine
Nov 17th, 2001 | Filed by Ophelia BensonMisuse of scientific terms gives credibility to woo-woo.… Read the rest
Germaine Greer on Women and Poetry
Nov 4th, 2001 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe interrelationship between rhyme and emphasis.… Read the rest
Nussbaum on Rawls
Jul 20th, 2001 | Filed by Ophelia BensonMartha Nussbaum on John Rawls in the Chronicle of Higher Education.… Read the rest
The Goddess is Bunk
Feb 1st, 2001 | Filed by Ophelia BensonCharlotte Allen looks at Wicca.… Read the rest
Nagel on Rawls
Jan 13th, 2000 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThomas Nagel on John Rawls in The New Republic.… Read the rest