FIELD NOTES
Fresco fracas/Conservatives for tenure/Gus Van Sant's favorite professor, and more
BREAKTHROUGH BOOKS
Fashion
INSIDE PUBLISHING
Outbreak/Deconstructing Porky/Spicerworld,
and more
Getting Their Hands Dirty?
The looting of Maya antiquities has turned into a booming and bloody business.
Should museums exhibit stolen goods? And should archaeologists study--or even
look--at them?
BY JOHN DORFMAN
Dr. Strangelove
Over the past few years, geneticists have dominated the effort to explain
sexual orientation. But social psychologist Daryl Bem refuses to let them
have the last word. Is he the new Freud? Or does his theory have more shock
value than substance?
BY EMILY NUSSBAUM
The China Syndrome
American scholars were long forbidden entry to the China of Chairman Mao.
That didn't stop them from romanticizing his regime. Today, they generally
enjoy the access they want. But critics say they are willing to downplay
human rights concerns in return.
BY MICHAEL STEINBERGER
Under the Influence
Was Kant a mystic? Surely not. But according to one new theory, he may have
owed a greater debt to the Swedish clairvoyant Emanuel Swedenborg than anyone
has recognized.
BY SCOTT McLEMEE
CLASSIFIED
CONFERENCES
HYPOTHESES
Jim Holt on the rising intelligence of just about everybody.
