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Introduction: Symposium is a new online magazine subtitled “Where academia meets public life.” You can think of it as a sort of Slate magazine without Mickey Kaus, or as the Atlantic without the stylish writing. Here are the articles in the first issue, which has just been posted: Why Write the History of Capitalism? Louis Hyman A new generation of scholars is rewriting the story of capitalism by shaking off the old assumptions of both the Left and Right. Sorry, Wrong Number Andrew Gelman How do bad numbers get into circulation in our political discourse, and how do they stay there, even after being refuted? Historians and the Problem of Miracles Scott K. Taylor Historians, like most academics, are a secular lot. Is this a bias that prevents a deeper understanding of religious history? The Rebirth of Viewing Pleasure Jill Dolan By taking a fresh look at popular culture, students are breathing new life into feminist theories of a generation ago. Game Theory is Useful, E
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2 ” You can think of it as a sort of Slate magazine without Mickey Kaus, or as the Atlantic without the stylish writing. [sent-2, score-0.322]
3 Louis Hyman A new generation of scholars is rewriting the story of capitalism by shaking off the old assumptions of both the Left and Right. [sent-4, score-0.385]
4 Sorry, Wrong Number Andrew Gelman How do bad numbers get into circulation in our political discourse, and how do they stay there, even after being refuted? [sent-5, score-0.083]
5 Taylor Historians, like most academics, are a secular lot. [sent-7, score-0.086]
6 Is this a bias that prevents a deeper understanding of religious history? [sent-8, score-0.199]
7 The Rebirth of Viewing Pleasure Jill Dolan By taking a fresh look at popular culture, students are breathing new life into feminist theories of a generation ago. [sent-9, score-0.393]
8 Procaccia Despite its booming popularity, a clear understanding of game theory requires that we understand the limits of its utility. [sent-11, score-0.609]
9 Gospel’s Many Ancestors Chuck McCutcheon A Yale professor documents the ancient origins of religious singing — and causes a debate over the roots of gospel. [sent-12, score-0.368]
10 Neelika Jayawardane Personal accounts of the apartheid and post-apartheid years take on a therapeutic role that is both painful and necessary. [sent-14, score-0.178]
11 Is the popularity of game theory really booming? [sent-15, score-0.548]
12 My impression is that game theory peaked in the late 1950s. [sent-17, score-0.495]
13 Two classics from that area are Solar Lottery and Luce and Raiffa’s Games and Decisions . [sent-18, score-0.083]
14 The latter is charming in its retro attitude that all that remained were some minor technical problems that were on the edge of being solved. [sent-19, score-0.159]
15 And then there’s my own paper from 2008 (most of which was from 1986), “Game theory as ideology: some comments on Robert Axelrod’s ‘The Evolution of Cooperation. [sent-20, score-0.167]
16 Regarding reading my article in this month’s Symposium, let me clarify that I have no desire to make enemies with Brooks or anyone else. [sent-23, score-0.083]
17 Symposium is explicitly a different sort of publication in that it is all about academic researchers communicating with the general public. [sent-30, score-0.079]
18 The writing in Symposium might well be as stylish as that in the Atlantic (and perhaps even as contrarian, at times, as what appears in Slate) but it is coming from a different, more openly academic, perspective. [sent-31, score-0.292]
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