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Last Number: June 2009

Phi Beta Kappa Society
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Year 2005

Vol. 74 Nbr. 1, January 2005

A sturdy man: notes on a human symphony.

Bob Boehmer - Biography

Another Washington leak.

Findings

Change.

Commonplace Book - A Book About Myself: Newspaper Days - Christianity and Evolution - Saving Graces: Sojourns of a Backyard Biologist - Simple French Food - The Anatomy of Bibliomania - The Beak of the Finch: A Stony of Evolution in Our Time - Book Review

Class warfare: it is wrong that America's most privileged families have abandoned military service.

Exhortation

Dining with robots.

The Reader Replies - Letter to the Editor

End of discussion: why I'm leaving my book group.

Fear itself.

Editor's Note

'I can't believe I'm doing it with Madame Bovary': learning to write musical comedy.

Arts

In praise of flubs: the pursuit of perfection has taken all the personality out of recorded classical music.

Arts

Joyas Voladoras and love in a box.

The Reader Replies - Letter to the Editor

Point and shoot: how the Abu Ghraib images redefine photography.

Arts

Rocket men: a daughter explores the male-dominated universe of her father.

Astro Turf: The Private Life of Rocket Science - Book Review

So help me God: what all fifty-four inaugural addresses, taken as one long book, tell us about American history.

The coming of the French: my life as an English professor.

The crooner and the physicist: Jacques Brel and The New Yorker profile that never reached critical mass.

Biography

The death of Derrida.

Letter from Paris - Jacques Derrida

The glue is gone: the things that held us together as individuals and as a people are being lost. Can we find them again?

Democracy

The industrial-strength humanist: J. Irwin Miller knew how to get things built.

Arts - Biography

The peculiar intellectual: in the antebellum South, scholars made serious contributions to their fields, at least until they turned to defending slavery.

Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South - Book Review

The software wars: why you can't understand your computer.

Thoreau's landscape within: how he came to know nature, and through it came to know himself.

Book Review

What Einstein knew: one year and five papers that changed physics forever.

Einstein 1905 The Standard of Greatness - The Einstein Almanac - Book Review

What we got wrong: how Arabs look at the self, their society, and their political institutions.