What We Know

Twice in the last forty years the paramount Court has upheld the teaching of evolution in our academys And yet, with the rise of the "intelligent design" change here we go again. by what means the controversy is reported has an result on how the public thinks, and in our overspread story, "Undoing Darwin," Chris Mooney and Matthew C Nisbet exhibit that coverage of the newest quarrel about evolution allows its enemies to frame the story their way - as a debate between scientific theories, rather than what it actually is: the latest and greatest in quantity sophisticated religious challenge to an overwhelming scientific consensus. Meanwhile, upon page 40, we explore a different kind of pres breakdown, this individual in Israel. On the cusp of the Gaza pullout Gal Beckerman's alphabetic character from Tel Aviv provides a psychological portrait of an Israeli pres that, at a critical historical second simply stopped asking questions. This is also our next to the first annual books issue. More and more significant journalism is arriving in volume form now, and starting upon page 54 we celebrate and analyze the kind of writer who dives into a complicated universe and brings back the stories that make a certain quantity of sense of it. Enjoy.

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