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New Online Only Content
We’ve just posted lots of great online only content as part of our summer issue cycle. It includes: When Science Meets State, an article by John Prince about the future of stem cell research in the United States Is Godless Great?, an article by Sarah Harland-Logan about American secularism and part of our forthcoming Religion in America cover Interviews of ... Read More
My Visit to the Tea Party
Today, I did something which went against the deepest instincts of my time at the Harvard Political Review: reporting. I heard two days ago that Sarah Palin was going to be in town for the Boston Tea Party rally, and I knew this was something that I simply had to see. So this morning I woke up bright and early, ... Read More
Harvard’s Supposed Crisis of Faith
Newsweek’s Lisa Miller spills a lot of ink and raises a lot of dust in her article on “Harvard’s Crisis of Faith.” But her conclusion is small-bore and uncontroversial. Of course Harvard and all other colleges should offer and even require some exposure to religion and its attendant issues and debates. I have seen no evidence that Harvard thinks otherwise. ... Read More
One Summit At A Time
Will Leiter gives us an overview of Obama’s “bipartisan summit” strategy and asks, in effect, will it work? Some smart people whom I respect say that this is capitulation and error (see Yglesias’ “doomed strategy” post). That viewpoint conforms nicely with the basic stance on the left since Scott Brown’s election, which has been that either (a) healthcare reform is ... Read More
Revisiting Francis Collins
Last summer, Sam Harris, one of the Four Horsemen of New Atheism, released a broadside in the New York Times against Obama’s appointee to head the National Institutes of Health, Francis Collins. Collins, in addition to heading the Human Genome Project, has been a vocal advocate for the reconciliation of science and faith — indeed, for the view that scientific ... Read More
Fall 2009
Fog of War Volume 36, Number 3, Fall 2009 Letter from the Editor Front Section Bursting at the Seams IAN MERRIFIELD Drug incarcerations, prison overcrowding, and community corrections Escaping the Poppy Field IVANA DJAK, NEIL PATEL American anti-opium efforts in Afghanistan The Source of the Problem ANGELA PRIMBAS Confronting prescription drug abuse Decriminalization in Massachusetts MATTHEW S. MILLER, KATHERINE LEE ... Read More
Support for Soldiers
Eric Greitens on rebuilding after Katrina and helping veterans continue to serve at home Greitens is the volunteer Chairman and CEO of The Mission Continues and a U.S. Navy SEAL Officer. He recently wrote a book about his humanitarian work abroad called Strength and Compassion. HPR: You have worked in many different sectors from military to education. In your work ... Read More
Averting Armaggedon: Apposite Approaches
In one strictly limited sense, modern man has become as God; he has acquired the ability to destroy the world. After the invention of the atomic bomb in 1945, the United States and the Soviet Union acquired massive reserves of the devices. While many in both nations would like to decrease the megatonnage they aim at each other, the prospect ... Read More
Neither Prudishness nor Promiscuity
Real Sex: The Naked Truth about Chastity, by Lauren Winner, Brazos Press, 2006. $14.99.192 pg. Sex is a hot topic and is a reliable standby for talk shows, TV shows, and magazines; but is our culture really having any discussion about sexuality? In Lauren F. Winner’s book, Real Sex: The Naked Truth about Chastity, Winner proposes a sexual revival in ... Read More
