Recently added articles from American Scholar:
War stories.(EDITOR'S NOTE)(Editorial)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Bethany Vaccaro's brother Robert suffered a devastating brain injury from an explosion in Iraq 38 years to the day after my brother was killed on a bombing mission in Vietnam. In Shock Waves," an affecting and excruciatingly honest essay that explores what her brother and her family have ...
Evolution's purpose.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Brian Boyd's essay in the Spring 2009 issue of the SCHOLAR describes the purpose-driven life--purpose being the result of evolution rather than the cause. I would like to add to that concept by suggesting a description of the mind that includes purpose. The brain stores information about ...
Spring fever.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
Jun 22, 2009; ... As a dowser, I enjoyed Kate Daloz's piece in the Spring issue. I never graduated beyond peach or willow limbs, but I have enjoyed the ability to find water sites for wells, water mains, water-line breaks, and so forth. Now retired, I also found it useful in my career as a heart surgeon, ...
Friends and letters.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Thank you for the selection from the correspondence between James Salter and Robert Phelps, and for Michael Dirda's handsome tribute to the latter (Spring). Poet and critic Louise Bogan, not easily impressed, became very fond of Phelps; among other interests, they shared a ...
Computers cleared.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Joseph Fuller, in describing how computer modeling worsened our current financial crisis (Spring), notes that the lesson from Long Term Capital Management (LTCM) was not learned. A casual reading of Roger Lowenstein's history of LTCM, When Genius Failed (2000), suggests that the use of the ...