Race and Admission to Universities

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Preface XI
4. PRELIMINARY REMARKS
5. After Dinner Remarks XV
6. Champagne Toast XXIII
7. Opening Remarks XXV
8. CLASS I MATHEMATICAL AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES
9. The Laws of Nature 3
10. Our Concepts of the Cosmos: Progress, Prospects, and Mysteries 11
11. Mathematics and Computing 23
12. Global Warming: Does Science Matter? 45
13. The Molecular Biology of Huntingtons Disease or in Science Curiosity Pays *—At Least Sometimes 59
14. CLASS II # BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
15. Scientists and the Public: An Ambivalent Partnership 71
16. Cancer: The Revolution and the Challenge 81
17. Wiring the Brain: Dynamic Interplay Between Nature and Nurture 89
18. A Neuroscience of Memory for the 21st Century 99
19. CLASS III SOCIAL SCIENCES
20. National Sovereignty and Human Rights 133
21. Economics Becomes a Science— Or Does It? 141
22. A Millennium of Economics in Twenty Minutes: In Pursuit of Useful Knowledge 161
23. Population in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries 173
24. CLASS IV HUMANITIES
25. Reconstructing the Past 185
26. Art and Architectural History in the Twentieth Century 199
27. More than One Millennium: The Perennial Return of the History of Religions ON THE STATE OF THE HISTORY OF RELIGION AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO OTHER DISCIPLINES 227
28. Singularity in an Age of Globalization 235
29. CLASS V THE PROFESSIONS, ARTS AND AFFAIRS
30. One Hundred Years of the Renaissance 247
31. Race and Admission to Universities 259
32. Health Care in a Democratic Society* REMARKS TO THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY 271
33. Culture and Democracy in America 283
34. Index 295