Spring 2009
Articles
Exhortation
The Terminator Comes to
Wall Street
How computer modeling worsened the financial crisis and what we ought to do about it
Evolution does not rob life of meaning, but creates meaning. It also makes possible our own capacity for creativity.
Second Chances, Social Forgiveness, and the Internet
We need the means, both technological and legal, to replace measures once woven into the fabric of communities
At 50, Godard’s film still asks how something this bad can be so good
The Man Who Shot the Man Who Shot Lincoln
The hatter Boston Corbett was celebrated as a hero for killing John Wilkes Booth. Fame and fortune did not follow, but madness did.
Writing On Writing Well and keeping it up-to-date for 35 years
In 1969 the writer Robert Phelps first wrote to the novelist James Salter. Here are the letters that forged a bond of two decades.
How a town in Vermont found water it desperately needed and an explanation that was harder to swallow
Fiction
Poetry
Arts
At 50, Godard’s film still asks how something this bad can be so good
Elgar, served neat and unshaken, stirs up the Brits
