Epically Intimate
A female translator takes on Virgil's quintessentially manly classic, the Aeneid.
Sarah Ruden, Yale Divinity School, the first woman to translate the Aeneid. (Photograph by Don Hamerman)
Strands of Anxiety
Technologies for genetic screening, manipulation, and enhancement are advancing at an astonishing rate. Are our ethical guidelines keeping up? asks Anita L. Allen.
Innocent Motives
Prenatal screening is not eugenics. Let's calm down and get our scientific and historical references straight, writes Ruth Schwartz Cowan.
First Thoughts
Critical Mass
Reviews of Shakespeare's Wife, by Germaine Greer.
Suspicion
When racism was overt, its victims knew who scorned them. Now, who can tell? Paranoia reigns, and not just the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's, writes John L. Jackson Jr.
Israel at 60
A history of scholarly contention surrounds a contentious history between Jews and Arabs, writes Carlin Romano.
Books & Arts
Lessons From Kenya
Failures in lasting democratic reform led to recent violence, writes Makau Mutua.
Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga (right) chats with Vice President Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka (middle) after Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki (left) took the oath as head of a new coalition government on April 17. (Photograph by Simon Maina, AFP, Getty Images)
'Standard Operating Procedure'
A new film and book show the scandal at Abu Ghraib in a different light, writes Louis P. Masur.
Nota Bene
A novel by Lionel Trilling discovered in the archives; and two books about Japanese detective fiction.
NEW SCHOLARLY BOOKS
Observer
Spirited Pursuits
Both faith and learning are matters of mystery and humility, writes Laurence E. Musgrove.
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Blogs
Brainstorm: Lives of the Mind
Dan Greenberg Part II: The Humanities and the Washington Money Chase The federal spending data tell the story: $30 billion for agencies that support academic science and engineering; $144 million for the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Stan Katz The Utility of Philosophy The situation at the University of Florida prompts the question, Why are humanities the first to see cuts in times of financial hardship?
Footnoted: From Academic Blogs
Why Solitaire (Might) Make Professors Better Do laptop-based distractions in the classroom provide a useful incentive for professors to teach better?
Obama as Muslim Apostate? Rubbish, Says Juan Cole If there is a perceived apostate in the Muslim world, says Cole, it's Bush.
Higher Education Commentary
THEY'VE EARNED AN EDUCATION
The young people serving their country in Iraq and Afghanistan deserve a GI Bill as good as the one waiting for their grandfathers after World War II, says James Wright. (Illustration by Michael Morgenstern)
SCIENCE CLASSES FOR BUSINESS STUDENTS
To reflect the needs of the modern global marketplace, science and technology courses should be added to business-program curriculums, write Shari L. Laprise, Charles Winrich, and Norean Radke Sharpe.
REACHING OUT TO THE COMMUNITY
Even, and perhaps especially, in lean times, colleges and universities should help their surrounding communities, says Eugene P. Trani.
Portfolio
JEWS AND URBAN PHOTOGRAPHY
A photograph from the exhibition "Looks Given/Looks Taken: Jews and Urban Photography," at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor's Institute for the Humanities Gallery.
Letters
'Dishonesty' Among Authors
Firearms on the Campus
Food for the Body as Well as the Mind
The Past of Israel
A 'Demagogue' in the Pulpit
Chronicle Crossword
Discussions
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Live Discussions
The Brown Bag: Mary Jo Olenick, a higher-education architect at the S/L/A/M Collaborative, will answer questions about how the college campus needs to be reimagined by planners and architects in light of the cellphone generation. Join us for a live chat on Thursday, May 22, at noon, U.S. Eastern time.
Arts Coverage
Dance
Film
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Music
Theater
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