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Essays

The Fear Factor

Long-held predictions of economic chaos as baby boomers grow old are based on formulas that are just plain wrong

Essays

The Fear Factor

Long-held predictions of economic chaos as baby boomers grow old are based on formulas that are just plain wrong

ARTICLES

4 Popes, 4 Saints, One New Guy

Perhaps you’ve heard the news from Rome. But what does it really have to do with the man from Assisi?

Keep Smiling

An agnostic sermon

On Visitors

When the Bachelor Girl and the Red Death come calling, are they mirrors for our eccentricities?

Proust Goes to the Country Club

At a largely forgettable class reunion, remembrances of things past

A Prophet Without Honor

There’s no authoritative biography yet for Joseph Smith, the notorious founding figure in Mormonism

4 Popes, 4 Saints, One New Guy

Perhaps you’ve heard the news from Rome. But what does it really have to do with the man from Assisi?

Keep Smiling

An agnostic sermon

On Visitors

When the Bachelor Girl and the Red Death come calling, are they mirrors for our eccentricities?

Proust Goes to the Country Club

At a largely forgettable class reunion, remembrances of things past

A Prophet Without Honor

There’s no authoritative biography yet for Joseph Smith, the notorious founding figure in Mormonism

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DEPARTMENTS

editor's note

tuning up

Two Philosophers

What would Kierkegaard and Hegel do about the crises of our day?

poetry

anniversaries

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fiction

commonplace book

Book essay

The Autobiography of Biography

In which I tell how I was drawn again and again to the lives of African-American figures, and found in them the story of our times

book reviews

Man of the World

Well-traveled and erudite, John Quincy Adams sometimes had trouble appealing to his countrymen

The Skeptic

A critic’s cranky charm

Numbers Game

The problems of solutions

Dangerous Liaison

A CIA officer’s many faces

We, Not Me

A writer feels our pain

Beyond the Colonies

What else happened during the year of independence?