Week of September 16, 2013
#1 Science’s Humanities Gap Humanists have been much more receptive to science than vice-versa. NEW YORK TIMES |
#2 Larry Summers's Not-So-Illustrious Predecessor Woodrow Wilson also withdrew his first choice for the Fed in 1914. BLOOMBERG |
#3 The Discovery of the First Black Female Novelist The discovery of the author's real identity will forever change the history of African-American literature. THE ROOT |
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Is Peter Beinart Right About a ‘New New Left’? Maybe... maybe not. THE NATION |
#5 The Decline of College The four-year campus experience is becoming a thing of the past. NATIONAL REVIEW |
#6 A.J.P. Taylor Is History Is the popular historian worth another look? THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE |
#7 The Father of the 14th Amendment In September 1863, John Bingham was at the lowest point of his career. But soon he would become the father of the Fourteenth Amendment. NEW YORK TIMES |
#8 A Historian on a Film Set A Princeton historian on location with "Bombay Velvet." NEW YORK TIMES |
#9 How a College Student Changed Congressional Pay Gregory Watson's college essay received a C — and changed America. LOS ANGELES TIMES |
#10 The Man Who Invented Modern Probability Chance encounters in the life of Andrei Kolmogorov. NAUTILUS |