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Essays

The Embattled First Amendment

The Supreme Court is interpreting free speech in new ways that threaten our democracy

Essays

The Embattled First Amendment

The Supreme Court is interpreting free speech in new ways that threaten our democracy

ARTICLES

A Terrible Loss

Lincoln’s assassination 150 years ago turned plans for postwar reconciliation to a frenzy of violence

Kill the Creature

In search of snakes—and the balm of charity and love in a world of infinitely lonely space

Confessing and Confiding

Knowing the difference between the two can elevate an essay from therapy to art

Failure to Heal

Today’s medical industry thrives on diagnosing and curing, but it doesn’t reach the soul

Meeting the Mystics

My California encounters with Gerald Heard and Aldous Huxley

A Terrible Loss

Lincoln’s assassination 150 years ago turned plans for postwar reconciliation to a frenzy of violence

Kill the Creature

In search of snakes—and the balm of charity and love in a world of infinitely lonely space

Confessing and Confiding

Knowing the difference between the two can elevate an essay from therapy to art

Failure to Heal

Today’s medical industry thrives on diagnosing and curing, but it doesn’t reach the soul

Meeting the Mystics

My California encounters with Gerald Heard and Aldous Huxley

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DEPARTMENTS

editor's note

tuning up

No Wonder It Quakes

A massive aspen grove with a single root system might be immortal, or might be heading for extinction

poetry

anniversaries

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fiction

commonplace book

Book essay

Reflections on Alexis de Tocqueville

What is the place of the artist in a democratic society?

book reviews

Hearts With One Purpose

A revealing group portrait of Ireland’s motley crew of rebels

A Taste for Higher Math

The numbers that count

Two Dutch Visionaries

How the optical revolution revealed worlds large and small

“You Cannot Refine It”

From victory to annihilation, the evolving nature of combat

Proust Imperfect

The Englishman who interpreted France’s greatest novel

Meeting the Test of Time

Why some wordsmiths stay and others fade away