Strings Attached

Where Are the People?

Evangelical Christianity in America is losing its power—what happened to Orange County’s Crystal Cathedral shows why

Big Time

My Kingdom for a Wave

If your life as a public intellectual takes you to the highest crests, be prepared for the troughs that follow

My Friend Melanie Has Breast Cancer

How it might have happened, and why we are looking in the wrong places to prevent similar cases

From Superman to Everyman

The Best Course

A beloved professor’s long shadow

Splendor of Heart: Walter Jackson Bate and the Teaching of Literature By Robert D. Richardson

Once and Future Warfare

Homeless in the City

A writer describes the decade he has spent living on the streets

Our Farm, My Inspiration

How a weekend getaway became a poet’s muse

More Than Meets the Eye

Lingua Americana

A conversation about words

Abolition Gone Wrong

Despite good intentions, some opponents of the Atlantic slave trade caused more harm

Ship of DeathBy Billy G. Smith /The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World By Greg Grandin

The Novels Don’t Change, But We Do
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Rereading those works that matter to us proves that books read us even as we read them

Night Train to Gijón

The fried-pepper sandwiches were oily and delicious, and the Spanish lesson was even more memorable

Eric Rohmer and Me

What a classic film from the French new wave taught me about the illusions of my youth

Incident at Mittersill

A new opera explores the mysterious death of the composer Anton Webern

Humility

Ministry of Talent

JFK’s thousand days of crisis

Camelot’s Court By Robert Dallek

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