The Art of Literature and the Science of Literature
The delight we get from detecting patterns in books, and in life, can be measured and understood
By Brian Boyd Saturday, March 1, 2008
Who Cares About Executive Supremacy?
The scope of presidential power is the most urgent and the most ignored legal and political issue of our time
By Lincoln Caplan Saturday, December 1, 2007
Moral Principle vs. Military Necessity
The first code of conduct during warfare, created by a Civil War–era Prussian immigrant, reflected ambiguities we struggle with to this day
By David Bosco Saturday, December 1, 2007
The Work of Death
How the Civil War changed forever Americans’ relationship with mortality
By Ernest B. Furgurson Saturday, December 1, 2007
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War By Drew Gilpin Faust
On the Road to Nowhere
Tom Stoppard’s Russian intellectuals take a wrong turn with Hegel, just as Edmund Wilson once did with Marx
By John Patrick Diggins Saturday, December 1, 2007
Dreaming of a Democratic Russia
Memories of a year in Moscow promoting a post-Soviet political process, an undertaking that now seems futile
By Sarah E. Mendelson Saturday, December 1, 2007
The Daily Miracle
Life with the mavericks and oddballs at the Herald Tribune
By William Zinsser Saturday, December 1, 2007
Cuss Time
By limiting freedom of expression, we take away thoughts and ideas before they have the opportunity to hatch
By Jill McCorkle Saturday, December 1, 2007
“Writing in the Dark” by Denise Levertov
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, March 4, 2025
Tiger Mom
At a forest preserve in India, a writer sees the world anew and learns how to focus her son’s restless mind
By Elizabeth Kadetsky Monday, March 3, 2025
Who Would I Be Off My Meds
Can weaning oneself off pharmaceuticals ease the cycle of perpetual suffering?
By Scott Stossel Monday, March 3, 2025
Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistanceby Laura Delano
American Carthage 
Echoes from the ancient conflicts between Hannibal’s city and Rome continue to reverberate well into the present
By Charles G. Salas Monday, March 3, 2025
Who’s to Say?
A bewildering take from a noted scholar of Christianity
By Sarah Ruden Monday, March 3, 2025
Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesusby Elaine Pagels
Learning to Be Social
What might Rousseau teach us about how to live with others?
By Sally J. Scholz Monday, March 3, 2025
Chapters and Verse
Looking for the poet between the lines
By Jay Parini Monday, March 3, 2025
Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetryby Adam Plunkett
Asteroid Hunters
The scientists and engineers who defend our planet day and night from potentially hazardous space rocks
By Jessie Wilde Monday, March 3, 2025
