Moral Courage and the Civil War
Monuments ask us to look at the past, but how they do it exposes crucial aspects of the present and has an inescapable effect on the future
By Elizabeth D. Samet
Moral Courage and the Civil War
Monuments ask us to look at the past, but how they do it exposes crucial aspects of the present and has an inescapable effect on the future
By Elizabeth D. Samet
ARTICLES
New World Prophecy
Dvořák once predicted that American classical music would be rooted in the black vernacular. Why, then, has the field remained so white?
By Joseph Horowitz
The Crisis of University Research
Academia’s pursuit of corporate and government dollars has undermined its commitment to learning
By Richard Drake
How I Learned to Talk
Conversation once offered entry into other people’s minds. Has that disappeared?
By Emily Fox Gordon
New World Prophecy
Dvořák once predicted that American classical music would be rooted in the black vernacular. Why, then, has the field remained so white?
By Joseph Horowitz
The Crisis of University Research
Academia’s pursuit of corporate and government dollars has undermined its commitment to learning
By Richard Drake
How I Learned to Talk
Conversation once offered entry into other people’s minds. Has that disappeared?
By Emily Fox Gordon
DEPARTMENTS
editor's note
tuning up
Ten Sights (I Wish I’d Seen)
Purple ocean’s majesty, the dodo, and other wonderful things
By Priscilla Long
poetry
fiction
Sin
“It was enough that I was there, mutely listening as he recited his sorrowful dreams, or spooled out what he called his misgivings, his guilts, his remorse.”
By Cynthia Ozick
commonplace book
book reviews
Image Is Not Everything
A definitive portrait of a celebrated American intellectual
By Steven G. Kellman
Spirits in the Material World
Two new books consider the past and present of Christendom
By B. D. McClay
He Contained Multitudes
Exploring the psychology of an iconoclastic architect
By Amanda Kolson Hurley
