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Science and Civilization in China
There are many theories about how to answer Needham’s question. Perhaps it was religion? Governmental structures? Language? One answer that some Chinese educators discuss is Western-style liberal arts education. The argument is that a humanities education that...
Travels in Africa Excerpts
The Hottest Place on Earth In mid-afternoon, four hours later than I’d expected, we came at last to In Salah: a short stretch of unbroken pavement, a gas station crowded with trucks and smelling of diesel, a bitter dust rising in great clouds of yellow as the winds...
What Can We Share?
What is needed to create the kind of conversation that will help us to be a strong, inventive society? One answer is that we need something we share. What would that be? Lots of suggestions have been made, although in so large and multiple world many of them...