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Byte the Humanities
Sure, digital humanists can count how often Huckleberry Finn says "ain't," but that's not the point. Scott McLemee looks at a caricature -- and the real thing.
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Cardinal Questions
Can believers and unbelievers find fellowship? Scott McLemee looks at the 21st-century dialogue between faith and reason.
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Let's Get Small
Jeremy Bernstein's "A Palette of Particles" offers a guided tour of the subatomic universe. Scott McLemee goes on a trip.
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Revolution on Stage
A long-lost play about the Haitian slave revolt is out in a scholarly edition. Scott McLemee wants tickets.
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Velvet Prisons
A new documentary puts cultural historian and academic gadfly Russell Jacoby on screen. Scott McLemee gets a front-row seat.
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Catastrophe Theory
Didn't Immanuel Velikovsky's ideas go the way of Chariots of the Gods, bell-bottoms, and the pet rock? Scott McLemee looks at a monograph bringing him back into view.
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Spandex Studies
A monograph on superhero comics and nationalism puts Captain America in a geopolitical context. Scott McLemee reports from his fortress of solitude.
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Before the E-text
Old-fashioned books take up a lot of space -- both on our shelves and in our heads. Scott McLemee grapples with a new volume on reading.