The brain as mindless obsession: An excerpt from Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation by Charles Barber. The end of the critic? There was a time when they were our arbiters of culture; those days are gone. A review of Bondage of the Mind: How Old Testament Fundamentalism Shackles the Mind and Enslaves the Spirit by RD Gold. Might the worst be over for Africa? David Warsh investigates. A look at why Ayn Rand, Alan Greenspan's early mentor, would have been proud. For all their invincibility at chess and prowess in calculus, robots using neural networks have performed miserably in duplicating the behaviour of higher organisms such as mammals. A review of A Conservative History of the American Left by Daniel J. Flynn. A review of Bastard Tongues: A Trailblazing Linguist Finds Clues to

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