archive

No need to mourn

Christopher Phelps (OSU): A Neglected Document on Socialism and Sex. The disembodied book: The age of the printed book is drawing to a close — but there's no need to mourn its passing. A review of Until It Hurts: America's Obsession with Youth Sports and How It Harms Our Kids by Mark Hyman. A review of The Secret Lives of Boys: Inside the Raw Emotional World of Male Teens by Malina Saval. The age of diminishing endowments: An interview wwth Yale president Richard Levin on campus politics and the future of higher education. What place does Economics hold in the liberal arts university? (and part 2) Stefanie Sobelle reviews Picasso and the Allure of Language, edited by Susan Greenberg Fisher. Living on Canada's oil: Must we really choose between energy security and a climate disaster? Taking sides in the revolution: A review of Greg Kot's Ripped and Mark Helprin's Digital Barbarism (and more and more). Robot babies: Can scientists build a machine that learns as it goes and plays well with others? (and more and more from Cosmos). A review of Pieter Spierenburg's A History of Murder: Personal Violence in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present. Animals can tell right from wrong: A review of Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of Animals by Marc Bekoff (and more and more and an excerpt).