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In College, Andrew Delbanco explains the reversal of the postwar project of democratic expansion in higher education.

A case of scientific misconduct at Harvard.

The enigma of George Price: He derived an equation for the evolution of altruism, yet he died believing himself a failed good Samaritan.

Nothing is simple in the poems of James Schuyler, not even the formal austerity of looking out a window.

In The Age of Wonder, Richard Holmes lucidly charts how the Romantics were as transfixed by the failures of science as they were by its bright accomplishments.

Two new books explore the role of naturalists in the history of conservation movements.

What are the intellectual costs of recasting Lincoln and Darwin into heroes for our troubled times?

A Canadian philosopher surveys some of the livelier flashpoints in America's battle over evolution.

America's favorite natural grocery chain is looking like just another greedy, antiunion corporation.

As the site of a trial on including intelligent design in biology
textbooks, Dover, Pennsylvania, is a focal point of a national debate
on science and religion. But a look at the town and its residents show
that the battle may not be so clearly defined.