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ARTICLES

Flacking for Big Pharma

Drugmakers don’t just compromise doctors; they also undermine top medical journals and skew medical research

Making Sparks Fly

How occupational education can lead to a love of learning for its own sake

In the Orbit of Copernicus

A discovery of the great astronomer's bones, and their reburial in Poland

Plunging to Earth

Once the sport of daredevils, skydiving now offers it existential thrills to grandmothers, pudgy geeks, and even the occasional college professor

The Forgotten Churchill

The man who stared down Hitler also helped create the modern welfare state

Plucked from the Grave

The first female missionary to cross the Continental Divide came to a gruesome end partly caused by her own zeal. What can we learn from her?

Flacking for Big Pharma

Drugmakers don’t just compromise doctors; they also undermine top medical journals and skew medical research

Making Sparks Fly

How occupational education can lead to a love of learning for its own sake

In the Orbit of Copernicus

A discovery of the great astronomer's bones, and their reburial in Poland

Plunging to Earth

Once the sport of daredevils, skydiving now offers it existential thrills to grandmothers, pudgy geeks, and even the occasional college professor

The Forgotten Churchill

The man who stared down Hitler also helped create the modern welfare state

Plucked from the Grave

The first female missionary to cross the Continental Divide came to a gruesome end partly caused by her own zeal. What can we learn from her?

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DEPARTMENTS

editor's note

tuning up

Book essay

Ardent Spirit, Generous Friend

Remembering the novelist Reynolds Price

book reviews

The Inside Track

How those dim-witted robber barons built the railroads

Full Bloom

A critic offers his final thoughts

Frozen Assets

A gritty tale of a grim landscape

Deep Trouble

How a natural disaster barreled into a historical one

Deep Trouble

We should be more afraid for sharks than of them

Scholar-Activist

Is the search for truth compatible with the fight for justice?

A Survey and an Assertion

Twelve potted philosophers and a theory of human values

Beyond Nerves

Three women who helped engender modern psychiatry