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 Aging Boom

The Music of Painting

Seventeenth-century debates over content and form, color and line, and artifice and reality are as relevant today as ever

The Autobiography of Biography

In which I tell how I was drawn again and again to the lives of African-American figures, and found in them the story of our times

Beyond the Colonies

What else happened during the year of independence?

West of the Revolution By Claudio Saunt

Bistro

Achy Breaky Verdi

The Nashville Opera’s new contest

Things Not Quite Said

A conversation about words

A Prophet Without Honor

There’s no authoritative biography yet for Joseph Smith, the notorious founding figure in Mormonism

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