Keepers of the Old Ways
Eliot Stein on the people keeping cultural traditions alive
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, January 17, 2025
“The Purse-Seine” by Robinson Jeffers
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, January 14, 2025
“The Horses” by Edwin Muir
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, December 31, 2024
The Snow Maiden
Our final episode of 2018 is a send-off to the solstice
By Stephanie Bastek Monday, December 30, 2024
“Miniature Snowstorm” by Rosamund Stanhope
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, February 2, 2021
All in the Family
How the mob came to Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and small towns across America
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, January 29, 2021
Injured Merit
How a righteous sense of grievance can lead to a better world
By Paula Marantz Cohen Thursday, January 28, 2021
Second-Class Students No More
An excerpt from Point of Reckoning: The Fight for Racial Justice at Duke University by Theodore D. Segal
By Jayne Ross Tuesday, January 26, 2021
Point of Reckoning: The Fight for Racial Justice at Duke UniversityTheodore D. Segal
“Tonight I Can Write (the Saddest Lines)” by Pablo Neruda
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, January 26, 2021
Death in Papua New Guinea
Chronicling the disappearance of an entire language—and everything else that goes with it
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, January 22, 2021
Rage Against Reason
What Seneca could teach us about our inflamed passions
By John T. Scott and Robert Zaretsky Thursday, January 21, 2021
