Two Philosophers

What would Kierkegaard and Hegel do about the crises of our day?

Manhood
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Man of the World

Well-traveled and erudite, John Quincy Adams sometimes had trouble appealing to his countrymen

John Quincy Adams: American Visionary By Fred Kaplan

The Art in Amusement

The Fear Factor

Long-held predictions of economic chaos as baby boomers grow old are based on formulas that are just plain wrong

Cheap Microscope, Big Promise

The Skeptic

A critic’s cranky charm

A Literary Education and Other Essays By Joseph Epstein

China, Up Close

Inside the Box

How we became pod people

Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace By Nikil Saval

4 Popes, 4 Saints, One New Guy

Perhaps you’ve heard the news from Rome. But what does it really have to do with the man from Assisi?

“The Terrorist, He’s Watching” by Wislawa Szymborska

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Keepers of the Old Ways

Eliot Stein on the people keeping cultural traditions alive

Above the River of Your Longing

Two new prompts

Casa Gorín

“The Purse-Seine” by Robinson Jeffers

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Island Royalty

A new biography of a Caribbean revolutionary

The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christopheby Marlene L. Daut

The Writer in the Family

The fiction of E. L. Doctorow gave a young man hope of connecting his father and his literary hero

Birthday Boy

“The Horses” by Ted Hughes

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Amy Wetsch

Life, magnified

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