Sunday, May 27, 2018
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The Great Detached
As a journalist, Tom Wolfe’s greatest asset was his emotional distance from his subjects
Graeme Wood
Smarty Pants Podcast
Stitching History
What an old quilt can teach us about antebellum America
Stephanie Bastek
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What Is a Dog?
Friendship, faith, and love, for starters—yet our relationships with our canine companions contain many more unfathomable mysteries
Chloe Shaw
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Asturias Days Fridays
On Fridays, an American émigré muses on the language and culture of northern Spain.
La Bronca
Clellan Coe
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Measure by Measure Thursdays
The Man Who Loved Proust
Reynaldo Hahn and the sounds of the beautiful age
Sudip Bose
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View from Rue Saint-Georges Wednesdays
Workers of France, Unite!
The personal misery of public strikes
Thomas Chatterton Williams
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WISE TO THE WORDS
Current Issue
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A Vacuum at the Center
How a demagogue resembles a typhoon, and why it matters to the future of the republic
W. Robert Connor
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Shadow Warriors
After 9/11, what happened when the gloves came off?
Karen J. Greenberg
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Rivers Run Through Us
Six questions on the future of our waterways
Martin Doyle
Read moreTuning Up
Haste Makes Waste
Which figures of speech will survive, and which will vanish?
Edward Hoagland
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THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK
Tea and Fantasy
By Adam Goodheart
Every year during Memorial Day weekend, the people of Chestertown, Maryland, celebrate the anniversary of the Chestertown Tea Party, a colonial uprising in May 1774 that was inspired by its more famous counterpart in Boston. However, as Scholar contributing editor Adam Goodheart wrote in our Autumn 2005 issue, the origins of this locally beloved legend are suspect at best.
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The Beautiful Race
By Colin O’Brien
Colin O’Brien’s exploration of Italy’s greatest cycling event
