Recent Articles from The Review
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Against Environmental Panic
Conservationist rhetoric has come to assume a self-flagellating, apocalyptic fervor.
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The Gallic Gadfly
Pascal Bruckner is fast becoming the leftist intellectual whom conservatives love to quote.
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Civility and Sex Speech
The goal shouldn't be to make nice; it should be to create space for thoughtful discussion.
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Congress Is Back
Congress offers an unruly focus for research. But it's a crucial one, and it's finally getting its due.
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A Way Out of Silence
An English professor learns an important lesson when her Spanish-speaking students read poems aloud.
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Book Gangs of New York
In the chaotic world of 1930s New York, a modern-day scholar finds the story of a conniving book thief and the shrewd library investigator who sought to stop him.
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New Scholarly Books
Descriptions of the latest books, divided by category
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Psychedelic Academe
Research into mind-altering drugs is back. But the field is still on the edges of academic consciousness.
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Legalize It and They Will Analyze It
The Humboldt Institute for Interdisciplinary Marijuana Research studies a little-known industry.
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Raphael Lemkin: a Prophet Without Honors
He helped make genocide illegal. So why haven't you heard of him?
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We're All to Blame for MOOCs
Professors are deeply invested in the logic leading to massive open online courses and are ill-prepared to argue against them.
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Syria's Lost Generation
They languish in Jordanian refugee camps, dreaming of a return to the classroom. They'll need a lot of help to get there.
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The Rise of English-Speaking Science
The spread of a lingua franca helps scientific communication, writes a geologist and translator in his new book, even if it's not always the kind of English we are familiar...
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New Scholarly Books
Descriptions of the latest books, divided by category
