Spring 2007

Articles

A New Theory of the Universe

Robert Lanza

Biocentrism builds on quantum physics by putting life into the equation

When 2+2=5

Robert Orsi

Can we begin to think about unexplained religious experiences in ways that acknowledge their existence?

In Pursuit of Innocence

Paul Sears

From the Spring 1953 issue of The Scholar

The Judge's Jokes

John Barth

Shards of memory, for better or for worse, from my father the after-banquet speaker

The Apologist

Michael McDonald

The celebrated Austrian writer Peter Handke appeared at the funeral of Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic. Should we forgive him?

The Cook's Son

Frank Huyler

The death of a young man, long ago in Africa, continues to raise questions with no answers

One Day in the Life of Melvin Jules Bukiet

Melvin Jules Bukiet

A Manhattan writer runs afoul of the local penal system and lives to tell the tale

Findings: The Scientist's Fresh Eye

Richard E. Nicholls

From the Archives

Fiction

North of Ordinary

John Rolfe Gardiner

Plum Creek

Laura Furman

Poetry

The Mind at Work and Play

Langdon Hammer

Five Poems

John Hollander

Arts

What Happened to the Social Agenda?

Nathan Glazer

Leading modernist architects once wanted to improve the lives of everyday people; now they hope to astonish and amuse their elite clients

Globalization and Its Discontents

Richard Locke

The directors of movies Babel and Caché tell complex stories of families caught in ever-expanding worlds