What Happened to the Social Agenda?

Leading modernist architects once wanted to improve the lives of everyday people; now they hope to astonish and amuse their elite clients

Globalization and Its Discontents

The directors of movies Babel and Caché tell complex stories of families caught in ever-expanding worlds

Reality Revisited

Caracas: Living Large on Oil

Defeat

Findings: Privacy Revealed

From the Archives

The Mind at Work and Play

Five Poems

Happy Talk

What did we know about joy, and when did we know it?

The Happiness Myth: Why What We Think Is Right Is WrongBy Jennifer Michael Hecht / Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy By Barbara Ehrenreich

The Impulse to Exclude

Ralph Ellison wrote one great novel and then lived a life that is hard to admire

Response to Our Winter Issue

A New Theory of the Universe

Biocentrism builds on quantum physics by putting life into the equation

When 2+2=5

Can we begin to think about unexplained religious experiences in ways that acknowledge their existence?

In Pursuit of Innocence

From the Spring 1953 issue of The Scholar

The Judge’s Jokes

Shards of memory, for better or for worse, from my father the after-banquet speaker

Peter Handke

The Apologist

The celebrated Austrian writer Peter Handke, who won the 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature, appeared at the funeral of Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic. Should we forgive him?

The Cook’s Son

The death of a young man, long ago in Africa, continues to raise questions with no answers

One Day in the Life of Melvin Jules Bukiet

A Manhattan writer runs afoul of the local penal system and lives to tell the tale

North of Ordinary

Plum Creek

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