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New Grant statue unveiling at West Point
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

New Grant statue unveiling at West Point
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

ARTICLES

Black-and-white photo of composer William Levi Dawson

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?

Two students test a robot

The Crisis of University Research

Academia’s pursuit of corporate and government dollars has undermined its commitment to learning

Classroom

Required Reading

Sometimes teachers need to reach beyond the canon

Black-and-white photo of two people talking

How I Learned to Talk

Conversation once offered entry into other people’s minds. Has that disappeared?

Black-and-white photo of composer William Levi Dawson

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?

Two students test a robot

The Crisis of University Research

Academia’s pursuit of corporate and government dollars has undermined its commitment to learning

Classroom

Required Reading

Sometimes teachers need to reach beyond the canon

Black-and-white photo of two people talking

How I Learned to Talk

Conversation once offered entry into other people’s minds. Has that disappeared?

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DEPARTMENTS

editor's note

tuning up

A picture of the moon

Ten Sights (I Wish I’d Seen)

Purple ocean’s majesty, the dodo, and other wonderful things

poetry

anniversaries

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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.”

commonplace book

book reviews

Photo of Oliver Sacks

Head Cases

Field notes on a beautiful friendship

Etching of 1857 Art Treasures Exhibition in Manchester

The Great Convergence

How continental art and literature went global

Black and white photo of Susan Sontag

Image Is Not Everything

A definitive portrait of a celebrated American intellectual

Painting of Saint Augustine

Spirits in the Material World

Two new books consider the past and present of Christendom

Photo of Frank Lloyd Wright

He Contained Multitudes

Exploring the psychology of an iconoclastic architect

Illustration of the body

How We Work

An anatomical tour of what it means to be human

Downsized Living

Escaping the city, a writer finds contentment in a small town