Physicist at Large

I don't normally read The Federalist, but I stumbled across this article while googling "constitutional monarchy."  As I beco...

I just read First Class by Alison Stewart , a history of what was once America's finest high school for African American students.  It ...

Much of this book is descriptive, and reasonably even-handed for such a hot button topic as multiculturalism.  There's a lot of discussi...

1) I'm currently reading We Are All Multiculturalists Now by Nathan Glazer.  It's about multiculturalism in education from the pers...

Gillette, the razor company, has received considerable attention for an ad campaign that talks about how men have to be better in their cond...

I very much enjoyed The Blank Slate, but I haven't been in the blogging mood lately.  So I won't be doing chapter-by-chapter bloggin...

My next book will be The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker.  He talks about human nature, its biological contributors, and why people deny it.  ...