SPOTLIGHT

The Root Cause

Padraic X. Scanlan tells the real history of the Irish Potato Famine

By Stephanie Bastek Friday, March 14, 2025

SPOTLIGHT

The Root Cause

Padraic X. Scanlan tells the real history of the Irish Potato Famine

By Stephanie Bastek Friday, March 14, 2025

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Following the Current

Measure by Measure

The Maestro as Engineer

Ernest Ansermet and Arthur Honegger’s speeding train

View from Rue Saint-Georges

Protected by Privilege?

An exercise in illogic

Shelf Life

Incarcerating the Innocent

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Next Line, Please

Time to Tee Up

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Podcasts To Get You Thinking

Our new Daily Scholar columnist reviews the best educational offerings

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Flying Free

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On St. Cecilia’s Day

Handel’s ode for November 22

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In the Mushroom

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Consolidated Ruin

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“After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes” by Emily Dickinson

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Portrait of the Artist

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Ancestral healing

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Asteroid Hunters

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Book Reviews

Who Would I Be Off My Meds

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Brown Wasps

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Poems read aloud, beautifully

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Tiger Mom

At a forest preserve in India, a writer sees the world anew and learns how to focus her son’s restless mind

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“In Tunisia, the stones once brutalized by the Romans are now being protected from the soil. Here in New Mexico, the ground has been encouraged to swallow up the remains. The stones of this American Carthage whisper almost nothing of its past, choked by rising earth.”—Charles G. Salas, “American Carthage”

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“In Tunisia, the stones once brutalized by the Romans are now being protected from the soil. Here in New Mexico, the ground has been encouraged to swallow up the remains. The stones of this American Carthage whisper almost nothing of its past, choked by rising earth.”—Charles G. Salas, “American Carthage”

Plus: Elizabeth Kadetsky brings new meaning to the phrase “tiger mom,” Jessie Wilde profiles the scientists keeping us safe from space rocks, and Teri Michele Youmans follows her father’s memory to Enewetak Atoll

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Who Would I Be Off My Meds

Can weaning oneself off pharmaceuticals ease the cycle of perpetual suffering?

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At a forest preserve in India, a writer sees the world anew and learns how to focus her son’s restless mind

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At a forest preserve in India, a writer sees the world anew and learns how to focus her son’s restless mind

Article

American Carthage
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Echoes from the ancient conflicts between Hannibal’s city and Rome continue to reverberate well into the present

Article

Lessons From Harlem
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A white blues player’s streetside education

Commonplace Book

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