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The Mirage of KnowledgeTom Nichols dissects the dangerous antipathy to expertise. by Lydialyle Gibson Harvard Magazine March-April 2018 Tom Nichols Photograph by Stu Rosner Several years ago, Tom Nichols started writing a book about ignorance and unreason in American public discourse—and then he watched it come to life all around him, in ways starker than he had imagined. A p..

Alumni An Imposing Honor for Harvard’s First Black Graduateby Jean Martin The Harvard Magazine 2.22.18 The nine-foot-high depiction of Richard T. Greener, A.B. 1870, by sculptor Jon Hair, is the first statue of an individual on the University of South Carolina’s central campus. Its unveiling on February 21 coincided with the inauguration of a symposium in Greener’s honor..

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The Dreams of an Inventor in 1420 Bennett Gilbert The Public Domain Review Bennett Gilbert peruses the sketchbook of 15th-century engineer Johannes de Fontana, a catalogue of designs for a variety of fantastic and often impossible inventions, including fire-breathing automatons, pulley-powered angels, and the earliest surviving drawing of a magic lantern device. Johannes de Fon..

Defending the EnlightenmentSteven Pinker takes on the tribalists.Ronald Bailey The Reason, February 21, 2018 Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, by Steven Pinker, Viking, 556 pages, $35 Viking For Immanuel Kant, the central theme of the Enlightenment—that great 18th century movement that emphasized the power of reason—was Sapere ..

Judaism Without a Temple: An Excerpt from Martin Goodman’s “A History of Judaism”By Martin Goodman Judaism Without a Temple: An Excerpt from Martin Goodman’s “A History of Judaism RARB FEBRUARY 20, 2018 The following is an excerpt from Martin Goodman’s A History of Judaism, published this month by Princeton University Press. ¤ THE DESTRUCTION OF Jerusalem by Roma..

Inside the OED: can the world’s biggest dictionary survive the internet? For centuries, lexicographers have attempted to capture the entire English language. Technology might soon turn this dream into reality – but will it spell the end for dictionaries? By Andrew Dickson The Guardian, Fri 23 Feb 2018 In February 2009, a Twitter user called @popelizbet issued an appare..

Features Art and ActivismRediscovering Alain Locke and the project of black self-realization by Adam Kirsch Harvard Magazine March-April 2018 issue Alain Locke in an undated photograph Photograph courtesy of Moorland-Spingarn Research Center/Howard University In the autumn of 1924, Alain Locke was enjoying the beauties of San Remo, Italy. But his mind and heart were back home ..

Some Stories About George Washington Are Just Too Good to Be TrueBut there’s a kernel of truth to many of them because Washington was a legend in his own time <span style="font-size: 11pt;"><img src=“https://thumbs-prod.si-cdn.com/zV2Xizw5697kFsPX2-6tu-I8SWs=/800x600/filters:no_upscale()/https://public-media.smithsonianmag.com/filer/8c/a7/8ca76e7e-01cf-4a2b-97ab-a..

John Stuart Mill © Stephen Burrows/Alamy John Stuart Mill: higher happiness 0 --> 0"> CHRISTOPHER MACLEODTLS, February 13, 2018 0 --> -1 --> John Stuart Mill, the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century, is today best remembered as the author of On Liberty. The work is, he notes, a “kind of philosophic textbook of a single truth” &#8211..