The Invasion of Privacy

From the Autumn 1958 issue of The Scholar

Two Poems

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

Above the River of Your Longing

Two new prompts

Casa Gorín

“The Purse-Seine” by Robinson Jeffers

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Birthday Boy

“The Horses” by Ted Hughes

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Amy Wetsch

Life, magnified

New Year, Old Year

“The Horses” by Edwin Muir

Poems read aloud, beautifully

The Snow Maiden

Our final episode of 2018 is a send-off to the solstice

Ho Ho Horror

Why not make this Christmas a little darker?

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