To the Rescue of Romanticism

From the Spring 1940 issue of The Scholar

Good Thing Going

Stephen Sondheim only looks better with time

Wonder Bread

Come with us to a place called Brooklyn, where the stories are half-baked and their endings bland and soft

Unto Caesar

Religious groups that have allied themselves with politicians, and vice versa, have ignored at their peril the lessons of Roger Williams and U.S. history

Response to Our Summer Issue

The Trojan War

Now even some environmentalists are supporting the use of nuclear power to generate electricity. One man’s story suggests the industry can’t be trusted

Poetry Stand

How a precocious group of high school poets learned to provide verse on demand

Louise Glück’s Italy of the Mind

On a classical stage peopled by workers, wives, and lovers

Tiger Mom

At a forest preserve in India, a writer sees the world anew and learns how to focus her son’s restless mind

A Midsummer Night’s Stream
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A Midsummer Night’s Stream

Learning to Be Social
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What might Rousseau teach us about how to live with others?

The Murderer as Everyman
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Arthur Fleck’s rise and fall

Revenants

Between Memory and Hope

The love poetry of Anthony Walton

The Heart Yearns Without Tears
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After the Fallout
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On jellyfish babies, my father’s pain, and the legacy of nuclear testing in the Pacific

Spring 2025

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