Miscellaneous: Criticism of a Gender Theory, and a Scientist Under Siege: J. Michael Bailey is at the center of one of the most contentious and personal social science controversies in recent memory. Jane Austen, Yadda, Yadda, Yadda: Devoney Looser considers what to say when your academic specialty is suddenly capturing public attention. A review of Talking Hands: What Sign Language Reveals About the Mind by Margalit Fox. Discovering How the Maya Fed the Multitude: Archaeologists have reported finding what could be the earliest evidence for domestication of manioc in the Americas.
Richard Sennett and Saskia Sassen on the war on shapeless terror: There seems to be no rational basis for the arrest of a group of German sociologists, and the case highlights the fragility of our civil liberties. Revising Revisionist History: A review of The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy by Adam Tooze and A Shadow of Red: Communism and the Blacklist in Radio and Television by David Everitt. An interview with David Horowitz, author of Indoctrination U: The Left's War Against Academic Freedom. What are the best scientists working on?
Policing the Academy for Pirates: Educators are on the wrong side of the copyright wars. Hope Floats: In which a boatload of refugees land in Jamaica, become pawns in a European power struggle, and plant the first seeds in the Big Apple. A review of Sex on the Couch: What Freud Still Has To Teach Us About Sex and Gender by Richard Boothby. Here's Creative Loafing's College Guide to Getting It On. From Discover, here are 20 things you didn’t know about hygiene: "Cleanliness is serious business". Cool drinks and the inevitable arrow of time: If it’s a nice hot summer you might have the opportunity to be sitting outside and enjoying a cool drink.
