http://chronicle.com/section/The-Chronicle-Review/41/ Opinion & Ideas :: The Chronicle Review Wed, 23 May 2012 05:23:17 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131944/ http://chronicle.com/article/Book-Angst/131944/ Critics admit that their most well-known works aren't always their favorites.

]]> Tue, 22 May 2012 19:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131890/ http://chronicle.com/article/Spies-ShtarkersSex/131890/ Both grotesque anti-Semitic stereotypes and bland assimilationist mensches of yesteryear have been transmuted into multilayered, vivid characters, a new book argues.

]]> Sun, 20 May 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131894/ http://chronicle.com/article/Crony-Capitalism-for/131894/ Unexamined biases may keep economists from warning the public about financial risks.

]]> Sun, 20 May 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131888/ http://chronicle.com/article/A-Storied-Discipline/131888/ How Oliver La Farge's fiction and the South Pacific islands lured a Vietnam soldier into anthropology.

]]> Sun, 20 May 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131931/ http://chronicle.com/article/Video-The-Unabombers/131931/ David Skrbina, a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Michigan, has kept up a nearly decade-long correspondence with Ted Kaczynski, better known as the Unabomber.

]]> Sun, 20 May 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131892/ http://chronicle.com/article/The-Unabombers-Pen-Pal/131892/ The philosopher David F. Skrbina doesn't endorse Ted Kaczynski's violence. But he says some of the notorious anti-technologist's ideas are valid.

]]> Sun, 20 May 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131884/ http://chronicle.com/article/Is-America-Philosophical-/131884/ In Socratic terms? Maybe not. In any other terms? You bet.

]]> Sun, 20 May 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131819/ http://chronicle.com/article/The-Epic-Secret-Struggle-to/131819/ A persecuted population, against all odds, has created and sustained its own institute.

]]> Sun, 13 May 2012 01:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131820/ http://chronicle.com/article/From-Icky-to-Etsy-Victorian/131820/ Marginal tangibles reflect the tangibly marginal aspects of life in a baffling, modern age.

]]> Sun, 13 May 2012 01:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131823/ http://chronicle.com/article/Portnoys-Enduring-Complaint/131823/ A world dizzy with lust and disgust, irony and rage. Such were the literary epiphanies boomers found in Roth.

]]> Sun, 13 May 2012 01:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131818/ http://chronicle.com/article/Is-Death-Bad-for-You-/131818/ It sure seems like it, but ...

]]> Sun, 13 May 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131764/ http://chronicle.com/article/Awful-Job-Great-Entertainment/131764/ From human grizzly-bear bait to "Deadliest Catch," hazardous occupations have always fascinated Americans. Why?

]]> Sun, 06 May 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131763/ http://chronicle.com/article/The-Impermanence-of-Eden/131763/ A new memoir harvests bittersweet memories of a forward-thinking farm family.

]]> Sun, 06 May 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131760/ http://chronicle.com/article/The-Case-for-Breaking-Up-With/131760/ Love them if you have to, but to free your mind, leave them behind.

]]> Sun, 06 May 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131759/ http://chronicle.com/article/When-Fictionalized-Facts/131759/ Whether we approve of the liberties taken with history depends on who is taking them—Hilary Mantel or Showtime.

]]> Sun, 06 May 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131761/ http://chronicle.com/article/Do-Birds-Have-Emotions-/131761/ It's impossible, at this point, to know, but the evidence is tantalizing.

]]> Sun, 06 May 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131765/ http://chronicle.com/article/Cut-to-Controversy/131765/ A professor turned filmmaker aims his lens at Zionism.

]]> Sun, 06 May 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131580/ http://chronicle.com/article/Shift-Happens/131580/ On its 50th anniversary, Thomas Kuhn’s "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" remains not only revolutionary but controversial.

]]> Sun, 22 Apr 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131581/ http://chronicle.com/article/EvoPolitics/131581/ Partisan manipulation of Darwinian notions yields some strange, simplistic conclusions.

]]> Sun, 22 Apr 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131584/ http://chronicle.com/article/Osama-bin-Laden-Made-Me/131584/ Bernard Lewis is credited with providing the intellectual firepower for the war in Iraq. Now he says he opposed it from the start.

]]> Sun, 22 Apr 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131583/ http://chronicle.com/article/Spring-Awakening/131583/ A mind-altering lesson contained no lecture, just a wizardly musical score that spoke volumes.

]]> Sun, 22 Apr 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131585/ http://chronicle.com/article/Lillian-Hellmans-Convictions/131585/ We can continue to flog the writer for her abrasive moralism, or we can seek a more nuanced view of her politics.

]]> Sun, 22 Apr 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131582/ http://chronicle.com/article/The-Sociologist-as-Ethical/131582/ The late Irving Louis Horowitz paired his intellectual and business instincts to bold, unorthodox effect.

]]> Sun, 22 Apr 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131479/ http://chronicle.com/article/A-Byzantine-Plot/131479/ A revisionist take on the First Crusade gives the emperor of Constantinople a larger role.

]]> Sun, 15 Apr 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131480/ http://chronicle.com/article/As-Beef-Cattle-Become/131480/ The financial ties between pharmaceutical companies and agricultural schools have grown deep. And even at public colleges, they're often kept secret.

]]> Sun, 15 Apr 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131491/ http://chronicle.com/article/AfterWord-Why-Are-Beef-Cattle/131491/ Melody Petersen, an author and reporter, explains how animal scientists at land-grant universities have helped pharmaceutical companies make inroads in the beef industry.

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