The recent chatter here , and elsewhere , about Bill Cronon’s blog, Scholar as Citizen , has gotten me to thinking about another thread tha...
On Cronon: History, Law, and the Public, 2 of 2
What follows is the second in a pair of posts on the recent events involving William Cronon, Wisconsin Republicans, and the intersections ...
On Cronon: History, Law, and the Public, 1 of 2
What follows is the first of a pair of posts on the recent events involving William Cronon, Wisconsin Republicans, and the intersections bet...
Arrowsmith Dunks on Gantry
I'm in mourning over Michigan's State's very early exit from the NCAA tournament. Even so, here's a post in honor of March a...
David Brooks and American Science
David Brooks has a pretty distinguished resume for a journalist: reporter for the Wall Street Journal, senior editor at the Weekly Standard,...
Japan: Some Thoughts
I've been thinking about Japan a lot in the last few days. A horrible history is unfolding and, as an academic, I'm grasping for wa...
Errol Morris' Whiggish History of Incommensurability
"Weird." That was my reaction to Morris' ashtray story when I first heard it in on a Princeton University podcast. Lukas has ...
The (Bentley) Glass is More than Half Full: An Interview With Audra Wolfe
In keeping with my interest in archives, last week I interviewed Audra Wolfe about her experiences cataloging the papers of geneticist Bentl...
Errol Morris, Kuhn & the Ashtray
Errol Morris published the fourth installment of his five-part personal essay on Kuhn in today’s NY Times. All of it is worth reading (exc...
Writing, Theory, and the History of Science
Let me use this post to follow up on "The S cience (Studies) Wars: Daston v. Jasanoff" by linking it up with a few different conv...
Black Markets and Arms Trafficking
An article in today’s NY Times implicitly asks whether the popular uprising against Col. Muammar Quaddafi poses a threat to the United Stat...
What have you got?
The Forum wants your articles on American science, and it wants to give someone a prize. See the official announcement: The Forum for th...
The Intimate Life of an American Scientist
A couple weeks ago, I taught Martha Sandweiss's fascinating Passing Strange for my undergraduate methods seminar. The book exposes and...
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