Essay Education A Speculative Endeavor By Eleni Schirmer Education has become an investment. But what are its returns? More
Essay Religion Church & State in America By Elisabeth Sifton The Founding Fathers approached the church-state conundrum with an intellectual clarity that was characteristic of their times. More
Essay States of Mind The Difficult Task of the Future By Damion Searls Carl Jung’s fight to find psychological types. More
Essay Celebrity A Public Man By Andrew McConnell Stott The sheer gravitational weight of Lord Byron’s fame had the power to distort everything around it. More
Essay Politics Between the Lines By Robert Boyers A look at the crossroads where literature and politics meet, and the relationship between art and ideas. More
Essay Democracy Nongoloza’s Ghost By Sisonke Msimang The legacy of violence in the struggle for freedom in South Africa. More
Essay Eros Eros Between the Covers By Francine Prose A reconsideration of Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita. More
Essay Swindle & Fraud We Buy Broken Gold By Clancy Martin Why would a wealthy diamond merchant in a three-thousand-dollar suit want to cheat me out of a hundred bucks’ worth of gold? More
