Affirmative Inaction

Opposition to affirmative action has drastically reduced minority enrollment at public universities; private institutions have the power and the responsibility to reverse the trend

The Faux Arts

Variations on a theme of deception

Beyond the Genteel

Response to Our Autumn Issue

Unauthorized, But Not Untrue

The real story of a biographer in a celebrity culture of public denials, media timidity, and legal threats

Empathy and Other Mysteries

Neuroscientists are discovering things about the brain that answer questions philosophers have been asking for centuries

The Word Made Flesh

What writers do and what boxers do is more alike than you might imagine

To Accept What Cannot Be Helped

At 80, a woman with a fatal disease knows she doesn’t want to die in the hospital and discovers, with her family, what that really means

From The Book of Knowledge

(The Children’s Encyclopedia/The Grolier Society, vol. 115, 1936)

Tour de Horse

A masterly retelling of a death on the Plains

The Killing of Crazy Horse By Thomas Powers

Man of Letters

A novelist finds his classic voice

Saul Bellow: Letters By Benjamin Taylor

City Ways

Urban visions past and future

Makeshift Metropolis: Ideas About Cities By Witold Rybczynski

Big Muddy

The river before Mark Twain

Wicked River: The Mississippi When It Last Ran Wild By Lee Sandlin

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