Steven Weinberg holds the Josey Regental Chair in Science at the University of Texas at Austin. He has been awarded the Nobel Prize in physics and the National Medal of Science. His latest book for general readers is Lake Views: This World and the Universe.
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The Election—IV
November 8, 2012
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Why the Higgs?
August 16, 2012
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The Crisis of Big Science
May 10, 2012
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Symmetry: A ‘Key to Nature’s Secrets’
October 27, 2011
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The Atom at 3 PM
March 10, 2011
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The Universes We Still Don’t Know
February 10, 2011
The Grand Design
by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow
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Give Credit to Kepler and Brahe!
November 19, 2009
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‘…side by side with Zeus himself…’
November 5, 2009
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The Missions of Astronomy
October 22, 2009
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‘Without God’: An Exchange
November 20, 2008
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Without God
September 25, 2008
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The Election and America’s Future
November 4, 2004
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What Happened at Vienna
April 29, 2004
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The Wrong Stuff
April 8, 2004
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Lust for Glory
December 18, 2003
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What Price Glory?
November 6, 2003
A Stillness at Appomattox: The Army of the Potomac, Vol. 3
by Bruce Catton
The World Crisis, Vol. 4
by Winston S. Churchill
Infantry Warfare in the Early Fourteenth Century
by Kelly DeVries
Crusade in Europe
by Dwight D. Eisenhower
The Carmen de Hastingae Proelio of Guy, Bishop of Amiens
translated and edited by Catherine Morton and Hope Muntz
War in European History
by Michael Howard
From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow, Vol. 4 by Arthur J. Marder
Atlanta 1864: Last Chance for the Confederacy
by Richard M. McMurry
Winged Defense: The Development and Possibilities of Modern Air Power—Economic and Military
by William Mitchell
Coral Sea, Midway, and Submarine Actions, May 1942–August 1942
by Samuel Eliot Morison
A History of the Art of War in the Middle Ages
by C.W.C. Oman
The Art of War in the Middle Ages, AD 378–1515
by C.W.C. Oman, revised and edited by John H. Beeler
Mohammed and Charlemagne
by Henri Pirenne
Hankey: Man of Secrets, Vol. 1, 1877–1918 by Stephen Roskill
The Victory at Sea
by William S. Sims
The Bayeux Tapestry: A Comprehensive Survey edited by Frank Stenton
Eisenhower’s Lieutenants: The Campaign of France and Germany, 1944–1945
by Russell F. Weigley
A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II
by Gerhard L. Weinberg
Medieval Technology and Social Change
by Lynn White
The Gesta Guillelmi of William of Poitiers
translated and edited by R.H.C. Davis and Marjorie Chibnall
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‘Is the Universe a Computer?’
January 16, 2003
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Is the Universe a Computer?
October 24, 2002
A New Kind of Science
by Stephen Wolfram
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The Growing Nuclear Danger
July 18, 2002
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‘The Future of Science’
March 28, 2002
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Can Missile Defense Work?
February 14, 2002
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The Future of Science, and the Universe
November 15, 2001
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What Science Can Explain
September 20, 2001
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Can Science Explain Everything? Anything?
May 31, 2001
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‘A Designer Universe?’: An Exchange
January 20, 2000
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A Designer Universe?
October 21, 1999
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T.S. Kuhn’s ‘Non-Revolution’: An Exchange
February 18, 1999
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The Revolution That Didn’t Happen
October 8, 1998
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Before the Big Bang
June 12, 1997
The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the Universe(s) Report by Timothy Ferris
The Inflationary Universe: The Quest for a New Theory of Cosmic Origins by Alan H. Guth
Before the Beginning: Our Universe and Others by Martin Rees. (to be published in the US by Addison-Wesley in fall 1997)
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Sokal’s Hoax: An Exchange
October 3, 1996
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Sokal’s Hoax
August 8, 1996
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Reductionism Redux
October 5, 1995
Nature’s Imagination: The Frontiers of Scientific Vision
edited by John Cornwell, Introduction by Freeman Dyson
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The Big Higgs Question
July 9, 2012
Although the Higgs particle is so heavy that a giant particle collider was needed to create it, we still have to ask, why is the Higgs mass so small?