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Articles, Essays, and Reviews to Download
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Essays and Reviews- The Washington Post “Review of Heroes, by Lucy Hughes-Hallet” Style (December 14, 2005).
- The New York Times “Down By Law: Review of Women's Lives, Men's Laws, by Catherine Mackinnon” Book Review (May 22, 2005).
- The American Scholar “Universal Truths: Stories We've told Ourselves about the Heavens and the Earth: Review of The Grand Contraption, by David Parks,” (Summer 2005).
- “Gray Matters,” Conduit (January, 2005).
- The Chronicle of Higher Education “Let There Be Brights” (February 8, 2003) Sect. 2, B4.
- Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences “Review of Les Géants patagons: Voyage aux origines de l'homme, by Jacqueline Duvernay-Bolens” 33: 3 (Summer 1997), 340.
Book Chapters- “The Solvency of Metaphysics: The Debate Over Racial Science and Moral Philosophy in France, 1890-1914,” in Science, Race, and Ethnicity, John P. Jackson Jr., editor (University of Chicago, 2002), 130-154.
- Western Civilization: The Continuing Experiment (brief edition), with Thomas Noble, B. Strauss, D. Osheim, K. Neuschel, W. Cohen, and D. Roberts (Houghton Mifflin,1998).
Poetry in Anthologies- Best American Poetry 2005, Paul Muldoon and David Lehman, eds. (Scribners, 2005).
- Good Poems for Hard Times, Garrison Keillor, ed. (Viking/Penguin, 2005).
- Poetry Daily, Boller, Selby, and Yost, eds. (Sourcebooks, 2003).
- Good Poems, Garrison Keillor, ed. (Viking/Penguin, 2002).
- Poems to Live by in Uncertain Times, Joan Murray, ed. (Beacon, 2001).
- Best American Poetry 1999, Robert Bly and David Lehman, eds. (Scribners, 1999).
Journal Articles- “Vacher de Lapouge and the Rise of Nazi Science,” The Journal of the History of Ideas 61 (April 2000), 285-304.
- “The Solvency of Metaphysics: The Debate Over Racial Science and Moral Philosophy in France, 1890-1914,” Isis: Journal of the History of Science Society 90 (Spring 1999), 1-24.
- “French Scientific Materialism and the Liturgy of Death: The Invention of a Secular Version of Catholic Last Rites (1876-1914),” French Historical Studies 20: 4 (Fall 1997), 703-735.
- “A Vigilant Anthropology: Léonce Manouvrier and the Disappearing Numbers,” Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 33: 3 (Summer 1997), 221-240.
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Recent Talks
- Rector's Forum “Hecht on Doubt: A History.” Hosted by Reverend William McD. Tully, Saint Bart's Episcopal Church (Park Avenue, NYC), August 8, 2006.
- The Skeptic's Society Lecture, “Doubt and the History of Skepticism.” Hosted by Michael Shermer, July 10, 2005, Caltech, Pasadena, CA.
- “Science Against Faith,” Department of Science and Technology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, February 11, 2005.
- “Us vs. Them” Secularism and Religion, New York Institute for the Humanities, New York University, hosted by Lawrence Weschler, October 22-24, 2004.
- Otherness: The Construction of Race in the 20th Century, Webster University, St. Louis, December 5-6, 2003. “The Origins and Logic of Antiracism in France.”
- The Skeptic's Society Lecture, “The End of the Soul: Science and Atheism.” Hosted by Michael Shermer, September 21, 2003, Caltech, Pasadena, CA.
- Race in the History of Science. Center for the Study of Diversity, MIT, February 2001.
- History of Science Society, Annual Meeting, November 8-11, 2001, Denver, Colorado. “Atheism, Evolution, and Nihilism: Secular Ethics in France, 1870-1914.”
Radio
- An illuminating interview about Doubt: A History.on the Center for Inquiry's show Point of Inquiry, featuring host D.J. Grothe.
- “On Doubt,” The Brian Lehrer Show, hosted by Brian Lehrer; National Public Radio, November 2004.
- “A History of Doubt with Jennifer Michael Hecht,” Speaking of Faith, hosted by Krista Tippett; Minnesota Public Radio, December 11, 2003.
- “Doubt: A History,” Talk of the Nation, hosted by Neal Conan; National Public Radio, November 13, 2003.
- Poems read on The Writer's Almanac, hosted by Garrison Keillor; MPR (multiple occasions).
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Poetry in Journals (selected)
Poetry, Partisan Review, Ms. Magazine, Antioch Review, Barrow Street, Gettysburg Review, Southern Review, Salmagundi, Quarterly West, Missouri Review, Denver Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, Gargoyle, Black Warrior Review, River City, Washington Square Review, LIT, Confrontation, Poetry Daily.com, Nerve.com, No Tell Motel.com
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