The University as Welfare State
Why you should want kooks teaching your kids
By Paula Marantz Cohen Tuesday, December 11, 2012
How Does It Feel?
The difference between science and the humanities
By William Deresiewicz Sunday, December 9, 2012
In Praise of Small Presses
The books they publish would enliven any library—but you likely won’t find them at your average big box
By Michael Dirda Friday, December 7, 2012
A New Birth of Reason
Robert Ingersoll, the Great Agnostic, inspired late-19th-century Americans to uphold the founders’ belief in separation of church and state
By Susan Jacoby Friday, December 7, 2012
Totalitarianism in Practice
Terror as a way of life in East Germany, Poland, and Hungary
By Gary Saul Morson Friday, December 7, 2012
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1945-1956 By Anne Applebaum
On Friendship
The intimacies shared with our closest companions keep us anchored, vital, and alive
By Edward Hoagland Friday, December 7, 2012
Our Imperiled World
It took billions of years to make the earth habitable for humans. A distinguished astronomer warns the United Nations how quickly that can be reversed.
By Owen Gingerich Friday, December 7, 2012
No Sentiment
Baudelaire’s shock of the new
By Peter Fritzsche Friday, December 7, 2012
La Folie Beaudelaire By Roberto Calasso
Water in the Empty Part of the Map
The treacherous quest for the source of the Nile was the downfall of John Hanning Speke
By Sierra Bellows Friday, December 7, 2012
Keepers of the Old Ways
Eliot Stein on the people keeping cultural traditions alive
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, January 17, 2025
“The Purse-Seine” by Robinson Jeffers
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Island Royalty
A new biography of a Caribbean revolutionary
By Madison Smartt Bell Monday, January 13, 2025
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
By Jonathan Liebson Wednesday, January 8, 2025
The Weight of a Stone
Searching for stability in an erratic world led Oliver Sacks and other writers to the realms of geology
By Megan Craig Thursday, January 2, 2025
