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Sparked by his rereading of C. P. Snow's (1959) The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, Kagan's new book surveys the current status of the "two cultures" Snow described-the arts and humanities, on the one hand, and the natural sciences, on the otheras well as a third, the social sciences, wh