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Archaeologists in the Holy Land like to joke that their profession is vulnerable to a milder form of the syndrome. When scientists find a cracked, oversize skull in the Valley of Elah, it can be hard to resist the thought that it might have belonged to Goliath, or to imagine...
Those who know Gates consider him a realist in the mold of his mentor Brent Scowcroft, which is why it was surprising to hear such an idealistic answer. But American exceptionalism can signify many things. Its assertion of America's historical uniqueness can suggest that the U.S. has special global...
The first stories in “Too Much Happiness” exhibit Munro’s power at its best. Possibly due to the repetitive nature of her subject matter, her later stories become less and less fresh and she resorts more and more to the formula that she...
In 1951, when he was an assistant to pioneering strobe photographer Gjon Mili, Dennis Stock won LIFE magazine's competition for young photographers. Stock was 23. Thanks to talent, persistence and an eye for irony, he climbed the ladder of the profession. Dennis hung around the cooperative agency Magnum until...
“The economics profession has to recognize that some of the models that have been very dominant in thinking are very badly flawed,” Stiglitz said. “Markets are not as efficient, people are not as rational as we assumed.”