In Defense of Intelligence Tests by R. J. Herrnstein Critics of intelligence testing have recently called for nothing less than its abolition in schools and elsewhere. However, as good…
The Dragons of Eden, by Carl Sagan by R. J. Herrnstein Among the ancients it was believed by some that the power of vision depended on invisible emanations issuing from our…
Obedience to Authority, by Stanley Milgram by R. J. Herrnstein Writing in 1963 about Eichmann's trial in Jerusalem, Hannah Arendt invoked the banality of evil. Eichmann was, it seemed to…
On Challenging an Orthodoxy by R. J. Herrnstein In the immediate aftermath of Charles Darwin's epochal Origin of Species, social theorists were quick to apply the doctrine to…
Chance and Necessity, by Jacques Monod by R. J. Herrnstein Jacques Monod, director of the Pasteur Institute in Paris and winner (with two colleagues, Andre Lwoff and Francois Jacob) of…
