F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway met for the first time in 1925 in Paris, just as Fitzgerald’s third novel, “The Great Gatsby,” was being published in the United States. As recounted in the previous Second Reading, Hemingway was not a kind man and was especially unkind to Fitzgerald in “A Moveable Feast,” his memoir of Paris in the 1920s, but [...]
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Read more >>>A cloud looms over Adam Smith’s legacy. The 18th-century scholar is best known as an unalloyed extoller of the market and an apologist for self-interest, a reputation stemming from two centuries’ mischaracterisation of his thought. In the last 50-odd years, this interpretation has been given new credence by economists of the Chicago School (George Stigler famously [...]
Read more >>>This year a computer may be on your child’s most wanted gift list. Consider this a good investment if your school-aged child does not already have a computer; it has become essential for survival in school. Having a home computer changes everything. Reports can be typed and saved, research can be conducted at any time [...]
Read more >>>What Darwin Got Wrong is a remarkable book, one that dares to challenge the theory of natural selection as an explanation for how evolution works—a devastating critique not in the name of religion but in the name of good science.
Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, a distinguished philosopher and a scientist working in tandem, reveal major flaws at the heart of Darwinian evolutionary [...]
THOMAS COLLEGE, a liberal arts school in Maine, advertises itself as Home of the Guaranteed Job! Students who can’t find work in their fields within six months of graduation can come back to take classes free, or have the college pay their student loans for a year. Read more…
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Read more >>>Johnny Makkar is intent on buying a digital book reader. Yet he won’t consider any of the more than two dozen new devices introduced in recent months, many of them at the just-completed Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. For Makkar, a resident of Fairlawn, N.J., with a background in marketing, only two manufacturers will do, and one has yet to [...]
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“Comic and supremely witty, 36 Arguments for the Existence of God is both a satire of the academic world and a feast of philosophical and religious ideas.”—Alan Lightman, author of Einstein’s Dreams
“You do not have to perpetrate an act of faith to confront the question of why there is something rather than nothing. It is faith [...]
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