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article illustration 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 Let's calm down and get our scientific and historical references straight, writes Ruth Schwartz Cowan.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

article illustration 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.

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Nota Bene

A novel by Lionel Trilling discovered in the archives; and two books about Japanese detective fiction.

NEW SCHOLARLY BOOKS


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Spirited Pursuits

Both faith and learning are matters of mystery and humility, writes Laurence E. Musgrove.

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

article illustration 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

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