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"Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise." The biblical proverb augured the work of E.O. Wilson, the pre-eminent biological theorist of the late 20th century who has explored the workings of the cosmos from the altitude of anthills. Wilson, 67, has used the study...
One of the fundamental contentions of Sullivan and other same-sex advocates is that marriage--for homosexuals as well as heterosexuals--"domesticates" young men. Even the eminent social scientist James Q. Wilson asserts that nothing beats marriage for civilizing men, something every culture must find a way to do. Sullivan...
As Brown moved beyond Harlem to Middlebury College in Vermont and then into his career, his relationship with race seemed to become ever more complex. Instead of battering at the gates of the white establishment, he seemed more interested in slipping under the portcullis and dancing his way up to...
FOR A MAN WHO IS VIEWED BY MANY in Hollywood and on Wall Street as among the pre-eminent media minds of his generation, a man who built the Fox Network, mentored both Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg, and brought the world Saturday Night Fever and The Simpsons--for a...
Maybe. Remember David Stockman? During the first Reagan term--a period that I and, I assume, many eminent economists have referred to ever since as Voodoo I--Stockman admitted that the supposed tax-reform bill the President managed to get through Congress was actually a "Trojan horse" whose real purpose...