by Laura | Feb 3, 2011
Though issues relating to marriage have seen much public debate of late, mostly marriage can be seen as a private contract between two people. In her ambitious and comprehensive study of marriage and its connection over the years to the American political and economic...
by Laura | Feb 3, 2011
Written before The God Delusion, The Greatest Show on Earth is Richard Dawkins’ effort to put to rest any lingering doubts as to whether evolution might be “just a theory.” Dawkins assembles a case for evolution that is encyclopedic in scope, but...
by Laura | Feb 3, 2011
The name Charles Darwin has become so embroiled in the current debate between evolution and creationism, it is easy to forget what a vivid travel memoir this earlier work is, and how nimbly its author integrates insights from biology, geology, and anthropology. There...
by Laura | Feb 3, 2011
Ayaan Hirsi Ali has certainly earned her tough stance on Islam. As a young girl in Somali she was subjected to genital mutilation, and to brutal beatings by her mother when she departed from the strict path laid out for girls. She narrowly escaped a forced marriage...
by Laura | Feb 3, 2011
In his previous two books, The Moral Animal and Nonzero, Robert Wright argues that evolution—biological, social, and technological—has on balance, if imperfectly, moved humankind toward greater interconnectedness and moral inclusiveness. He makes much the same...
