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Abstract. This article examines the Atlantropa Project of the German architect Herman Sörgel as a window onto the interconnected histories of environmental anxi
This article is an excerpt from the book "Future Peace: Technology, Aggression, and the Rush to War," written by Robert Latiff, a member of the Bulletin Science and Security Board.
Among the more influential truisms about science today is that it is essential for technological — and thus economic — progress. It is fitting, then, that the apparent slowing of American innovation has fueled a debate about the importance of science and the need for the federal government to support it. Indeed, there is growing interest across the political spectrum in revitalizing American innovation, raising questions about how best to allocate scarce resources. What kinds of research should we support? Who should decide — government or industry or the scientific community? Should we...
An illuminating comparison of Ann Petry's The Street and Gwendolyn Brooks's Maud Martha with Cynthia Kadohata's The Floating World and Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker by You-me Park and Gayle Wald ("Native Daughters in the Promised Land: Gender, Race, and the Question of Separate Spheres," AL 70: 607-33) establishes the extent to which minority literature "represents the boundaries between public and private spheres in the United States" and how "these boundaries reinforce and overlap class and gender lines." The critics' conclusion is that both the African American and Asian American gro...