December 21, 2001

Social Scientists Offer Teachers Insight on Terrorist Attacks; an Online Journal Focuses on Evil

By D.W. MILLER and JENNIFER K. RUARK

HERE'S THE BEEF: Classroom teachers hungry for insight into the September terrorist attacks need more than bite-size punditry. Given the 600-word limits on newspaper op-eds, says Craig Calhoun, a sociologist at New York University and president of the Social Science Research Council, scholars have been expressing opinions without "the luxury of stating the intellectual underpinnings of those opinions."

Since September, more than 40 social scientists around the world have jumped at the