SPOTLIGHT
Welcome to the Bioemporium
Brain-dead bodies hold great promise for medical education and research, but how do we calculate the ethical cost?
By Carl Elliott Friday, September 11, 2026
SPOTLIGHT
Welcome to the Bioemporium
Brain-dead bodies hold great promise for medical education and research, but how do we calculate the ethical cost?
By Carl Elliott Friday, September 11, 2026
Stick Shifts and Safety Belts
How car culture swallowed America
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, June 14, 2019
An Excerpt from William Wordsworth’s Prelude
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Friday, June 14, 2019
A Mexican Mosaic
Carlos Chávez’s Indian Symphony
By Sudip Bose Thursday, June 13, 2019
The Best and Worst of Times
A weekend trip exposes France’s contradictions
By Thomas Chatterton Williams Wednesday, June 12, 2019
Pessimists and Progress
Lessons from skeptics throughout history
By James McWilliams Monday, June 10, 2019
Dawn Holder
End of the Anthropocene
By Noelani Kirschner Monday, June 10, 2019
Portals to Eden
The gates on college campuses provide beauty and security, but they can also take on symbolic importance in times of campus tumult
By Blair Kamin Thursday, September 10, 2026
The Two Ladies of Vermont
In 1875, the debate over whether to induct women into Phi Beta Kappa exposed a crack in the foundation of Western education
By Augustine Sedgewick Tuesday, September 8, 2026
“Ithaka” by C. P. Cavafy
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, September 8, 2026
Save the Meramec
On law, literature, and the Indiana bat
By Dennis Drabelle Monday, September 7, 2026
Call It Macaroni
Susan Stryker on her new book, Changing Gender
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, September 4, 2026
Adding Wimsey to My Life
How I fell in love with a fictional detective
By Paula Marantz Cohen Wednesday, September 2, 2026
“Everybody Who Is Dead” by Frank Stanford
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, September 1, 2026
current issue
Plus: The Phi Beta Kappa Society turns 250, Emily Bernard on her complicated obsession with Carl Van Vechten, Joshua Bodwell loses (part of) a tooth, and much more
Plus: The Phi Beta Kappa Society turns 250, Emily Bernard on her complicated obsession with Carl Van Vechten, Joshua Bodwell loses (part of) a tooth, and much more
The Revolutionary Scholar
Meditations on Phi Beta Kappa and the futures we imagine
By Esther L. Jones Tuesday, September 8, 2026
The Two Ladies of Vermont
In 1875, the debate over whether to induct women into Phi Beta Kappa exposed a crack in the foundation of Western education
By Augustine Sedgewick Tuesday, September 8, 2026
A Life in Stanzas
How Phi Beta Kappa shaped one poet’s beginnings
By Sandra Beasley Tuesday, September 8, 2026
Love the Blood 
Exploring the complexity of a life with Carl Van Vechten, on the centennial of his most notorious work
By Emily Bernard Tuesday, September 8, 2026
Our Energetic World
Life is not an accident but an inevitable result of physical laws
By Rebecca Boyle Tuesday, September 8, 2026
The Revolutionary Scholar
Meditations on Phi Beta Kappa and the futures we imagine
By Esther L. Jones Tuesday, September 8, 2026
The Two Ladies of Vermont
In 1875, the debate over whether to induct women into Phi Beta Kappa exposed a crack in the foundation of Western education
By Augustine Sedgewick Tuesday, September 8, 2026
A Life in Stanzas
How Phi Beta Kappa shaped one poet’s beginnings
By Sandra Beasley Tuesday, September 8, 2026
Love the Blood
Exploring the complexity of a life with Carl Van Vechten, on the centennial of his most notorious work
By Emily Bernard Tuesday, September 8, 2026
Our Energetic World
Life is not an accident but an inevitable result of physical laws