Can Julian Castro Make It In Texas?
The Human Factor
SCIENCE, LIKE ART, is a human expression. Roald Hoffmann has given a great deal of thought to how to convey this truth, which lies at the heart of the essays collected in his new book. He understands, perhaps better than most, the importance of humanity to science: how science, the beautiful search for the sublime—the “joy of self-assertion ... in the face of an uncontrollable world”—is no longer science when it is stripped of its humanity. READ MORE >>
High Gas Prices: Would New Drilling Or Keystone XL Really Help?
High oil prices have given Republicans the opportunity to do some Obama-bashing on energy. READ MORE >>
Mitt Romney: He's Rich. He's High Class. And He's Awkward.
Mitt Romney is not what you could call a man of the people—that is, if by “the people” you mean the voters he meets on the campaign trail. (The one-percent types he rubs shoulders with at dinner parties are a different story.) Much has been made of how out-of-touch Romney is with the middle-class Americans he is trying to win over. For some reason, we can’t help but recall that he’s the son of a governor, that he went to Harvard, and that he is fantastically rich. READ MORE >>
