From The Guardian, a review of The New School Rules by Francis Gilbert and The Great City Academy Fraud by Francis Beckett. A review of The Culture of History: English Uses of the Past 1800–1953 by Billie Melman. A review of Entfremdung: Zur Aktualität eines sozialphilosophischen Problems by Rahel Jaeggi. A review of Intellectual Virtues: An Essay in Regulative Epistemology by Robert C. Roberts and W. Jay Wood. Are We There Yet? An article on historians and the history of tourism. You may have already forgotten how your dinged and dented three-year-old car looked when it was new, but what if your car could remember for you – and transform itself right back? A review of The Druids: A History by Ronald Hutton. A purple patch on "acultural theory" by Charles Taylor. A review of Rescher on Rationality, Values, and Social Responsibility: A Philosophical Portrait by Nicholas J. Moutafakis.
A review of Robert Peel: A Biography by Douglas Hurd. The full text of Empire and Revolution: The United States and the Third World since 1945. A review of The Short Bus: A Journey Beyond Normal by Jonathan Mooney. A review of Jesus of Nazareth by Pope Benedict XVI. The Physicist and the Firefly present a moral dilemma: Time for you to decide. What should Kiersten do now? A review of Coral: A Pessimist in Paradise by Steve Jones. A review of Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees by Roger Deakin (and more). A review of A Movable Feast: Ten Millennia of Food Globalization by Kenneth F. Kiple.
The No. 1 reason to rank colleges: Students and their parents have much to consider when picking a school. Starting with a few facts in U.S. News can't hurt. Last month, scientists at Clemson University determined that applying the five-second rule to dropped food will not actually prevent the food from gathering bacteria. History without gimmickry: An excavated passage leads visitors deep into the story of Washington and his slaves. Sudoku and Graph Theory: Mathematicians find new clues to the popular puzzle. Whatever happened to the investigation of Felipe Fernandez-Armesto's arrest for jaywalking by the Atlanta police? From Comment, making the most of college: Finding your coffee community. How we get addicted: Humans have an odd habit of getting hooked on harmful things. New research is revealing why, and opening the door to the long-dreamed-of cure. The Old College Try: Why do alumni give to universities? To get their kids in, of course.
Crying Nazi: Franziska Augstein takes a critical look at media muckraking that's uncovered the Nazi pasts of a new group of leftist intellectuals. Extraterrestrial life may well be so weird we would not immediately recognize it, and scientists looking for alien life should be seeking the unfamiliar as well as the familiar. From Political Affairs, an essay on Marxism and the new synthesis in moral psychology; a look at sex and power: Towards a semiotics of violence; and an article on Real Political Correctness. A review of A Future for Presentism by Craig Bourne. Paramount Pictures has taken over the campus of Yale University to film the forthcoming fourth installment of the popular Indiana Jones series. From Bill Moyers Journal, an interview with E.O. Wilson. College is quicker (1 day) the second time around: One Day University gives students a chance to hear lectures from four top universities without homework, tests or an admissions process that goes beyond writing a check.
