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Backstory: Inside the Business of News by Ken Auletta

JAN 14, 2004 • Podcast

Backstory: Inside the Business of News

Auletta explores four of "the deadliest sins of journalism": synergy, the clash of business culture and news culture, hubris, and bias.

Rocks of Ages: The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister

JAN 1, 2004 • Article

"To Be Read" Book Review Column: Stephen Jay Gould, "Rocks of Ages. --The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox"

It seems a good idea to distinguish science and religion as two separate, mutually non-interfering teaching authorities. Popular science writer Stephan Jay Gould (1941-2002) suggested ...

Promoting Democracy in a Divided World

JAN 1, 2004 • Article

Feature Articles from Inprint Newsletter (2001–2004): Promoting Democracy in a Divided World

Democracies survive if per capita GDP surpasses $6,000, but developing countries have little chance of crossing this threshold. To make democracy work in such contexts, ...

DEC 19, 2003 • Article

Feature Articles from Inprint Newsletter (2001–2004): Response to “Searching for a New Iraqi Identity”

Elizabeth Cole's editorial shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the aims of the Iraq Memory Foundation. While she is right in asserting that "deciding on the ...

Darwin

DEC 8, 2003 • Article

"To Be Read" Book Review Column: David Sloan Wilson, "Darwin's Cathedral"

Religion, I think most of us would say, isn't about much if it isn't about belief in a personal God... Religion is founded on the ...