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Law Without Values: The Life, Work, and Legacy of Justice Holmes
The great Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. penned a host of memorable aphorisms that summarize his legal philosophy: “The life of the law has not been logic, it has...
In Plato’s Cave
After growing up in poverty in rural Wyoming, Alvin Kernan joined the prewar Navy in 1941 to get a start in life. He began as an enlisted man serving...
Metaphysics Matters
In Defense of Natural Lawby robert p. georgeclarendon/oxford university press, 343 pages, $65 In his influential book The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins asserts that “Like successful Chicago gangsters our genes...
What Would Newton Do?
Sir Isaac Newton was a man of many talents. After his great scientific discoveries he had a remarkable second career as Warden of the Mint, where he implemented a...
The Gorbachev of Darwinism
Stephen Jay Gould is mad as hell, and he’s not going to take it any more. Readers of the New York Review of Books learned that much in June...
The Unraveling of Scientific Materialism
In a retrospective essay on Carl Sagan in the January 9, 1997 New York Review of Books, Harvard Genetics Professor Richard Lewontin tells how he first met Sagan at...
The Storyteller and the Scientist
Climbing Mount Improbable By Richard Dawkins Norton, 288 pages, $25 Darwin’s Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution By Michael Behe Free Press, 336 pages, $25 Richard Dawkins began...
The Circus of Death
The Gravest Show on Earth: America in the Age of Aids By Elinor Burkett Houghton Mifflin, 375 pages, $24.95 Elinor Burkett portrays the AIDS culture wars as a kind...
The Limits of Pragmatism
Overcoming Law By Richard A. Posner Harvard University Press, 605 pages, $39.95 Richard Posner is one of the intellectual giants of the legal profession. As a professor at the...
Yesterday’s New Age
Madame Blavatsky’s Baboon: History of the Mystics, Mediums, and Misfits Who Brought Spiritualism to America By Peter Washington shocken, 470 pages, $27.50 Madame Helena Blavatsky, the founder of Theosophy,...
The Judicial Culture Wars
Judicial Power and American Character: Censoring Ourselves in an Anxious Age By Robert F. NagelOxford University Press, 208 Pages, $29.95 Robert Nagel, a Professor of Law at the University of...
How the Universities Were Lost
The Soul of the American University: From Protestant Establishment to Established Non-Belief By George Marsden Oxford University Press, 424 pages, $35 Faith and Knowledge: Mainline Protestantism and American Higher...
The Swedish Syndrome
The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion by Stephen L. Carter Basic Books, 328 pages, $25 Yale Law Professor Stephen L. Carter’s first book,...
Domesticating Darwin
In Search of Human Nature:The Decline and Revival of Darwinism in American Social Thought by carl degler oxford university press, 400 pages, $24.95 In the beginning, Charles Darwin explained...
Nihilism and the End of Law
When President Bush nominated Judge Clarence Thomas to a vacancy on the United States Supreme Court, liberals opposed to confirming the nomination at first directed critical scrutiny to statements...
