Miscellaneous
Straighten up and feel great!
Simple steps to better posture. Julie Gudmestad | May 2005 Read More...
The power of hope and resistance
Noam Chomsky, America's leading dissident, believes great leaders don't change the world. People like you do. John Malkin | September 2005 issue Noam Chomsky, a linguist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is sometimes referred to as America’s leading dissident for his passionate Read More...
Shocking in Paris
Strolling the boulevards raises questions about what's immoral Jay Walljasper | November 2005 issue In Paris recently, enjoying a weekend of urbane adventure en route to Ode meetings in Rotterdam, I indulged in one of my favorite extravagances: buying art. It proved a particularly fruitful Read More...
Unjamming the future
As millions of Asians jubilantly embrace driving, some experts predict an automotive nightmare. But a group of practical visionaries around are working out a solution: fewer cars and greater mobility. Jay Walljasper | October 2005 issue I am sitting in the back of a motionless taxi on the way Read More...
The soldier in the forest
Sometimes, Paolo Coelho ponders, we need to be reminded of the unanswered questions we asked as children. Paulo Coelho | July 2004 Read More...
The republic of imagination
Post-national writers pioneer a new global literature Tijn Touber | December 2005 issue Worldwide migration, telecommunication technologies and mass media have not only made the world smaller, but mixed it all up. No culture is homogeneous anymore, no race intact, no language pure, no soccer Read More...
These not-so-united states
Is small also beautiful when it comes to countries? Jay Walljasper | March 2005 issue One hundred and forty years after the shooting stopped, the U.S. Civil War still rages on the battlefield of American politics. George Bush’s narrow re-election and the Republicans’ small gains in Congress Read More...
What happens when every student gets an A?
Music conservatory professor Benjamin Zander, who is also conductor of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, explains why all his students receive an A | July/Aug 2005 issue After teaching for 25 years at a music conservatory, I still run into the same obstacles. In class after class the Read More...
I love orange juice
Research points to lack of vitamin C, rather than fat, as the leading cause of heart disease Tijn Touber | July/Aug 2006 Read More...
The truth
Not something to die for Tijn Touber | September 2005 issue Recently, Ervin Laszlo, the Hungarian systems philosopher, said The British Library’s collection included the unpublished spiritual works of Isaac Newton. According to Laszlo, Newton didn’t dare go public with this material Read More...