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...fact creationism and I.D. are intimately related to a larger unresolved question, in which the aggressor's role is reversed: Can religion stand up to the progress of science? This debate long predates Darwin, but the antireligion position is being promoted with increasing insistence by scientists angered by intelligent design and excited, perhaps intoxicated, by their disciplines' increasing ability to map, quantify and change the nature of human experience. Brain imaging illustrates--in color!--the physical seat of the will and the passions, challenging the religious concept of a soul independent of glands and gristle. Brain chemists track imbalances that...
...They are aiming at the transgressive, something that will shock people down to their boots. But in so doing, they travesty Arbus. Her photographic manner was quite objective. Mostly she just had her subjects stand before her and stare, more or less expressionlessly, into her camera. Her pictures often seemed like snapshots raised to flashpoint and their intention seemed to me to reinsert the freakish back into the quotidian, to make us see the human normality lurking beneath the outer forms nature cruelly imposed upon her subjects. To put it simply, underneath her apparent artlessness there was great artfulness...
...Peirce, Class of 1859, too, would have agreed, though for different reasons. For him, education was not about swallowing little bits and pieces of the world. Knowledge advanced through dialectic, not digestion: “Each mind reflects differently…and…reality doesn’t stand still long enough to be accurately mirrored. Peirce’s conclusion was that knowledge must therefore be social.” Menand certainly knew this. I’m quoting his characterization of Peirce...
...Harvard is a campus that prides itself on tolerance of others, regardless of their backgrounds, personal beliefs, and moral decisions. Unfortunately, HRL’s posters violate this tolerance by attacking rape victims on a very personal level, prioritizing an ethical stand over the health of fellow students. These assaults, moreover, are not beneficial to the campus discourse. Certainly, HRL’s posters incite debate. But because they do so at the expense of rape victims, they turn what ought to be a healthy, educational discussion into a vicious polemic of name-calling, in which the attacked individuals likely...
...site, and a newly-conceived comp process.Epstein praises the new events. “The introduction of Comedy for a Cause, Harvard Live, and Yardfest are an attempt at diversification of the HCC’s operations,” she says.Comedy for a Cause—a stand-up comedy show originally intended as a one-time event in cooperation with the Earthquake Relief Coalition—was a large success last year, and the HCC decided to bring it back as an annual event.Held again this October, the event was a complete sellout and was predicted to bring...