In 1921, William Bell Riley admonished his opponents that they should “cease from shoveling in dirt on living men,” for the fundamentalists “refuse to be buried.” A century later, the funeral for ...

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Efforts by leaders of the US national academies to adjust to the new political reality have spurred member concerns about ...