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The names of the men who were attracted to Marxism in their youth during the twenties and thirties reads almost like a roster of influential thinkers in modern America: Daniel Boorstin, Sidney Hook, Daniel Bell, Ernest Hemingway, Edmund Wilson, Granville Hicks, Reinhold Niebuhr, Daniel Aaron, and Murray Kempton, to name...
There are a number of courses on biological determinism in the course catalogue, but most of them take a very different view of the subject matter than that of Lewontin and Gould. Bernard C. Davis offers Nat Sci 37, "Evolution, Genetics and Society," with the specific intent of counteracting their...
Martin, a former Jesuit professor and religion editor of The National Review, also takes a dim view of any deviation from orthodox Catholicism. The French theologian Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who tried to rationalize evolution and scientific discovery with Christianity, is attacked for contributing in a roundabout way to the...
Ice Age. Hunting, runs this hypothesis, laid down the foundations of human institutions: the development of weapons, cooperative action, the need to share food and the division of labor into hunting males and child-rearing females. The nonhunting female, Ardrey believes, contributed vitamins to the diet by foraging for plants...
Vegetarians and feminists will not be pleased. Neither will readers who, while granting Ardrey the run of his special territory, require more rigor with their speculation. He frequently exhibits what might be called the rhetorical imperative. For example: "Are the qualities that we regard as uniquely human the consequences of...