winter-2005

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ARTICLES

The Glue Is Gone

The things that held us together as individuals and as a people are being lost. Can we find them again?

So Help Me God

What all fifty-four inaugural addresses, taken as one long book, tell us about American history

What We Got Wrong

How Arabs look at the self, their society, and their political institutions

The Coming of the French

My life as an English professor

The Software Wars

Why you can't understand your computer

The Crooner and the Physicist

Jacques Brel and The New Yorker profile that never reached critical mass

The Glue Is Gone

The things that held us together as individuals and as a people are being lost. Can we find them again?

So Help Me God

What all fifty-four inaugural addresses, taken as one long book, tell us about American history

What We Got Wrong

How Arabs look at the self, their society, and their political institutions

The Coming of the French

My life as an English professor

The Software Wars

Why you can't understand your computer

The Crooner and the Physicist

Jacques Brel and The New Yorker profile that never reached critical mass

A Sturdy Man

Notes on a human symphony

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DEPARTMENTS

editor's note

poetry

Two Formalists

Remembering Thom Gunn and Anthony Hecht

commonplace book

Book essay

End of Discussion

Why I’m leaving my book group

book reviews

Thoreau’s Landscape Within

How he came to know nature, and through it came to know himself

Rocket Men

A daughter explores the male-dominated universe of her father

The Peculiar Intellectual

In the antebellum South, scholars made serious contributions to their fields, at least until they turned to defending slavery

What Einstein Knew

One year and five papers that changed physics forever

One Bad Husband

What the “Bluebeard” story tells us about marriage