![]() ![]() Which hasn't prevented some in the sciences from arguing precisely the opposite, from assuming even this last, most ill-fitting mantle, by suggesting that science's spirit of questioning will automatically infect the rest of society." They have no aptitude for it, no connection to it, really. ![]() And one of the things they don't do well is democracy. "It troubles me because there are many things 'math and science' do well, and some they don't. … The sciences march, largely untouched, under the banner of the inherently good. That said, I see no contradiction between my respect for science and my humanist's discomfort with its ever-greater role in American culture. "Let me be clear," Slouka writes in a careful effort to side with the angels, "I write this not to provide tinder to our latter-day inquisitors, ever eager to sacrifice the spirit of scientific inquiry in the name of some new misapprehension. The September issue of Harper's magazine features a piece by Mark Slouka lamenting the demise of the humanities in favour of math and science. ![]()
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