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Political Science

Godzooks

David Berlinski

David Berlinski reviews Yuval Noah Harari’s Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow. To the question of whether human beings are shortly to become like gods, Berlinski answers not any time soon.

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Biology

Behavior

David Lahti

David Lahti reviews a recent book on how and to what extent genes determine behavior by philosopher of science Kenneth Schaffner: Behaving–What’s Genetic, What’s Not, and Why Should We Care?

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Anthropology

Great Scott

George Scialabba

James C. Scott’s Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States explores the mixed blessings of agriculture and animal domestication. George Scialabba casts a critical eye over Scott’s book.

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Physics

To Be, Not To Be, Maybe

Tim Maudlin

Philosopher of science Tim Maudlin reviews a recent book on quantum theory and its implications for philosophy: Quantum Ontology: A Guide to the Metaphysics of Quantum Mechanics by Peter J. Lewis.

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Economics

Equal by Catastrophe

Victor Davis Hanson

Is economic equality all it’s cracked up to be? Victor Davis Hanson reviews Walter Scheidel’s The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century.

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Physics

Recollections of Some Notable Texts

Jeremy Bernstein

A recent collection of Freeman Dyson’s lectures, Advanced Quantum Mechanics, is reviewed by Jeremy Bernstein, alongside other published lectures by Julian Schwinger and Steven Weinberg.

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Physics

Odd Man Out

Andrew Jordan

A review of Roger Penrose’s Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy by physicist Andrew Jordan. An ironic tension: Penrose attacks contemporary physics as fanciful; his own proposals are just as farfetched.

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Archaeology

Another Great Story

Wendy Doniger

Of myths and legends. Wendy Doniger reviews Asko Parpola’s The Roots of Hinduism. Astonishingly erudite, Parpola often allows his imagination and desire to reach beyond the available evidence.

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Philosophy

How Things Hang Together

George Scialabba

George Scialabba reviews Convergence: The Idea at the Heart of Science by Peter Watson, and his description of the progressive unification of the sciences.

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