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DEC 2, 2002 • Article
"To Be Read" Book Review Column: Philip Kitcher, "Science, Truth, and Democracy"
Kitcher cuts a clear path between those who worship science as a religion and those who fashionably insist that science is merely a set of ...
NOV 18, 2002 • Article
Monitoring Global Poverty: Better Options for the Future
How many poor people are there in the world? Are their numbers increasing or decreasing? Professor Sanjay Reddy argues that the answers ...
NOV 13, 2002 • Article
Civilians and War: Dilemmas in Law and Morality
Rules for distinguishing between civilians and soldiers during armed conflict have been around since the medieval period, but the debate surrounding recent civilian deaths in ...
NOV 1, 2002 • Article
"To Be Read" Book Review Column: Paul Woodruff, "Reverence"
Woodruff doesn't lament the absence of reverence in our life; he asks us to discover it where it already is. We could not live ...
OCT 20, 2002 • Article
Threats Beyond the Headlines
"One unintended danger of our hedgehog-like focus on the war against terrorism is that it squeezes the public space available to air other issues, increasing [...