Confounding Father

Thomas Jefferson and the economics of slavery

Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves By Henry Wiencek

The Clintons Up Close

A friendship between two couples yields insights into a presidency and a marriage

Too Big to Fail and Too Risky to Exist

Four years after the 2008 financial crisis, banks are behaving more recklessly than ever

Questions of Being

What if our minds are the ultimate reality?

Why Does the World Exist? An Existential Detective Story By Jim Holt

Liberty Is a Slow Fruit

Lincoln the deliberate emancipator

Kerouac in His Own Words

An old friend explores his search for a new approach to the novel

The Voice Is All: The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac By Joyce Johnson

Mortify Our Wolves

The struggle back to life and faith in the face of pain and the certainty of death

The Voice Is Ready to Sing

A Monster at Large

Crime, politics, and the vagaries of Japanese justice

People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished From the Streets of Tokyo — And the Evil That Swallowed Her Up By Richard Lloyd Parry

Four Poems

At Boquillas
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Presidents and Poets

All Scotland Waits for Her

An inspired British documentary featured an unforgettable locomotive, and the work of two of the 20th century’s greatest artists

Golden Rules

Wealth and culture in early Christian times

Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 ADPeter Brown

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