Jerome E. Copulsky
By Jerome E. Copulsky
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Culture The Kindness of Strangers
The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness By Oren Harman W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 464 pages, $27.95 Ever since Darwin first published “On the Origin of Species,” scientists have struggled to figure out the evolutionary origins of altruism. How can the theory of “survival of the fittest”…
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Culture How Moses Built America
Fans of Dan Brown’s latest novel, “The Lost Symbol,” may well profit by perusing Bruce Feiler’s new book, which argues that the true secret of American history is not Masonic, but Mosaic. “Moses helped shape the American dream,” Feiler writes toward the end of “America’s Prophet: Moses and the American Story.” “He is our true…
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