Leading readers on a journey through scientific attempts to envision the best of all possible worlds, from Galileo to superstring theory, Ekeland explores the legacy
The Google Print Library Project is the latest of Google’s efforts to digitally copy and distribute the holdings of several of the world’s largest libraries—a
Drawing on the thesis of John Samples’ latest book, The Fallacy of Campaign Finance Reform, George F. Will’s recent op-ed in the Washington Post supports
A recent review by virtuoso pianist and music critic Charles Rosen has much to say about Philip Gossett’s latest work, Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian
William Clark’s most recent work, Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University, is one of the first books to take on the daunting
A recent review in The Nation of John Gennari’s Blowin’ Hot and Cool: Jazz and its Critics opens by recounting a fistfight between the legendary
The online publication of The Chicago Manual of Style sparked pre-release feature stories in several publications including the New York Times and the Chronicle of
The purported links between the political philosophy of Leo Strauss and the neoconservative ideology of the Bush Adminstration has dramatically increased interest in Strauss’s work.
The countercultural movements of the sixties and seventies fostered a generation of utopian dreamers and reformers who shared a longing for a new society liberated
Listen to Stephen Colbert’s controversial performance at this year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner, or take a look at recent Danish cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad,