online archive
12:00PM
AUG 28 2007
Political psychology and utopia, classics and science
Christopher Dawes and James Fowler (UCSD), Tim Johnson (Stanford), Richard McElreath (UC-Davis) and Oleg Smirnov (SUNY): Egalitarian Motives in Humans. James Folwer and Christopher Dawes (UCSD) and Laura Baker (USC): The Genetic Basis of Political Participation. A review of Comrades: a world history of communism by Robert Service. A review of Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia by John Gray.
A review of Love, Sex & Tragedy: How the Ancient World Shapes Our Lives by Simon Goldhill. A review of Alexander's Coins and Alexander's Image by Carmen Arnold-Biucchi. A review of The Impact of Imperial Rome on Religions, Ritual and Religious Life in the Roman Empire. A review of Roman Women by Eve D'Ambra.
From Seed, seeing the unseeable: The limits of our senses confront the limitlessness of the universe. The ideal of scientific objectivity has been subverted — even in the world's most prestigious universities — by the pernicious and pervasive influence of postmodernism. A review of The Threat to Reason: How the Enlightenment Was Hijacked and How We Can Reclaim It by Dan Hind.
