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Giving Karl Popper His Propers: Scholars reflect on the controversial philosopher 100 years after his birth -- by David Cohen

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Previous Stories

07.19.02

Ignore Fast-Track Assessments of Scholarly Books at Your Peril: Mark Bauerlein reviews the mainstream publications on how they review scholarly work.

07.05.02

In Writing and Publishing, Think Inside the Box: William Germano looks at how publishers and booksellers must constantly rework categories and disciplines to help scholars and audiences find each other.

06.28.02

Two stories on the state of academic publishers:

University Presses Aren't Endangered... by Niko Pfund

...but Presses Must Stress Ideas, Not Markets by Malcolm Litchfield

06.15.02

Younger (and Older) Than the New Left: Examining the work of several thinkers who served as the founding fathers of '60s radicalism, Mr. Mattson argues in Intellectuals in Action that they were engaged not in overthrowing the liberal tradition in American politics, but in deepening it.

04.05.02

Is Race Real? How Does Identity Matter? As he leaves Harvard for Princeton, K. Anthony Appiah's scholarship takes a new direction.

03.29.02

A Free Trader Today: A profile on Dr. Jagdish Bhagwati, respected economist in the field of global free trade.

03.15.02

Revising the Book of Life: Steven Jay Gould may be America's most famous living scientist, but the unanimous acclaim of the scientific community still eludes him. Now, a profile shows how Mr. Gould is trying to define his reputation among scientists with the publication of his magnum opus, The Structure of Evolutionary Theory.

03.08.02

Advocate for Human Rights: Michael Ignatieff, of Harvard, draws on his experience in global hot spots to push the cause of oppressed people

03.01.02

The Anger and the Irony: After years of neglect, the first African-American novelist with a national reputation is joining the literary canon.

02.08.02

Pierre Bourdieu, one of the "master thinkers" shaping French intellectual life, died in Paris in late January, following a struggle with cancer. Scott McLemee reports on an interview with Bourdieu's collaborator and colleague, Loic Wacquant about the thinker's life, work, and legacy.

02.01.02

Jay Mechling talks about his new book, On My Honor: Boy Scouts and the Making of American Youth, and people's responses to its insights.

01.25.02

Narratives of mental illness written by patients, rather than their doctors, offer extraordinary insights into the condition and its treatment, writes Gail A. Hornstein, a professor of psychology at Mount Holyoke College.

01.14.02

"Richard Wolin is an intellectual historian with a remarkable gift for upsetting people. His work has annoyed postmodernists, outraged Heideggerians, infuriated scholars of Hannah Arendt, and provoked Jacques Derrida himself into faxing lengthy denunciations and threats of legal action...."