Cover Story
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
Cover Story
Reflections on a Silent Soldier
After the television cameras went away, a North Carolina city debated the future of its toppled Confederate statue
by Robin Kirk
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
Departments
Editor's Note
Letter From …
Tuning Up
American Places
Poetry
Works in Progress
Fiction
Commonplace Book
Book Reviews
Image Is Not Everything
A definitive portrait of a celebrated American intellectual
Steven G. Kellman
Spirits in the Material World
Two new books consider the past and present of Christendom
