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| HOW TO UNDERSTAND THE RESURGENCE OF EUGENICS |
| BY SIDNEY PERKOWITZ |
| Medical advances in manipulating human DNA, though they present many benefits, could also be used to advance eugenic goals. This combination of a dubious political agenda and the tools to implement it could take us in uncharted directions. Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and 1997's Gattaca, which NASA called the most plausible sci-fi film ever made, chart the consequences and bioethics of gene manipulation. |
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| THE ORIGINS OF LITTLE LEAGUE |
| BY AMY SHEARN |
| Baseball is America's "national pastime," but Little League didn’t take off until after the Second World War. Why was that? |
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| YOUNG WOMEN AT THE VANGUARD |
| BY CHI LUU |
| The assumption that young women’s verbal patterns indicate insecurity can’t necessarily be validated. In fact, they are frequently at the forefront of their languages. |
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| P.G. WODEHOUSE, AMERICAN HUMORIST? |
| BY MATTHEW WILLS |
| The creator of Jeeves certainly comes across as the quintessential Englishman, but he spent much of his life in the U.S., and his time in America had an effect. |
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WHAT WE'RE READING AROUND THE WEB
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| THE EDITORS |
| JSTOR Daily editors select stories that bridge the gap between news and scholarship. This week's picks cover policing, marijuana, and rewiring the brain. |
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