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When Edward O. Wilson, professor of Zoology, published his 575-page treatise, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, this summer, he knew it would draw criticism. He said he expected an initial wave of favorable response from scientists who were "primed" for the appearance of the book and who share many of...
Many people are surprised to hear that Sweden is not a socialist country. Perhaps the confusion is primarily semantic. If people mean that socialism is perhaps a social democratic government and national health insurance, then Sweden is indeed "socialist." The Social Democratic Party has been in power for over 40...
Springsteen's songs are full of echoes-of Sam Cooke and Elvis Presley, of Chuck Berry, Roy Orbison and Buddy Holly. You can also hear Bob Dylan, Van Morrison and the Band weaving among Springsteen's elaborate fantasias. The music is a synthesis, some Latin and soul, and...
What all this amounts to is a thoroughgoing confusion about the limits of ethnic particularism in a democratic society. There is no better guide to understanding this difficult issue than David Riesman, who, over a generation ago, recognized that a style of give-and-take is a crucial feature of...
Much of Campbell's extraordinary speech was an explanation of and response to the theories of the sociobiologists−a hundred or so geneticists, zoologists, mathematicians and anthropologists who over the past few years have been trying to prove that all human social behavior has genetic origins. Most psychologists...