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Jean Stein’s Rolodex. How the iconic editor of Grand Street made intellectual life a social affair... more »
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Philosophers often think of themselves as purveyors of arguments. Daniel Dennett told stories... more »
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Gertrude Himmelfarb, a conservative historian who revered the liberal tradition, had little use for misty nostalgia... more »
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Making machines talk. Inventors have for centuries pursued the dream of devising an android that speaks... more »
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While medieval witches used magic for harm, “cunning folk” performed simple spells to find lost objects, inspire love, and heal illness... more »
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The role of the critic, as exemplified by Helen Vendler, is not to put oneself in front of the poet but to excite the reader to seek out the poet’s work... more »
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Humanities scholars distance themselves from the idea that they produce knowledge. Why?... more »
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Ella Fitzgerald learned to scat because she felt out-of-place during jam sessions. So she started improvising with her voice... more »
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Interesting things are happening in postsecondary education. Just not, for the most part, on college campuses... more »
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How did the tiger get its stripes, the cheetah its spots? Alan Turing set out to explain nature's patterns, and sort of succeeded... more »
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Horror in architecture: Modernity has produced endlessly cloned suburban homes and dystopian, shuttered factories... more »
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Growing up Friedman. In any disagreement, what mattered is who had the best argument, not who was older. Milton's son explains... more »
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The Gulag Archipelago, which catalogs countless deaths, unimaginable cruelty, and the worst of human nature, is a work of optimism... more »
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How can we believe in the power of language when our words are no longer reflective of any divine order? Charles Taylor investigates... more »
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The aim of solitude, wrote Montaigne, was “to live more at leisure and at one’s ease.” Don’t confuse that with loneliness... more »
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“The novel is the truth, and the rest is lies.” For René Girard, fiction alone preserves social and psychological configurations as they really are... more »
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Randall Sullivan went in search of the origins of evil. Too bad he got hopelessly lost along the way... more »
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Men have traditionally raged against the cutesy confines of fatherhood. What does it mean to give in to them?... more »
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Armed and ready for the apocalypse, Elizabeth Clare Prophet’s followers went underground in 1990. What happened next?... more »
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In 1990, Stephen Greenblatt dismissed psychoanalysis. Now he's giving Freud a second chance, not least to point out that Shakespeare got there first... more »
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Liberalism was originally an ethical doctrine that addressed the fundamental question of how to live well. Why has it become a narrowly political project? ... more »