Essay Intoxication Fabled Powers By Sven Birkerts For an artist, a day of successful inspiration is also a day a systematic intoxication. More
Essay Ways of Learning Academic Virtue By Stanley Fish What is the job of higher education and what is it that those who teach in colleges and universities are trained and paid to do? More
Essay The City Waiting for Goffman By Michael Dirda There are few better interpreters of modern metropolitan life than sociologist Erving Goffman. More
Essay Fashion The Climb of Ivy By W. David Marx The styles of the American Ivy League transform the fashions of 1960s Japan. More
Essay Food Death in the Pot By Deborah Blum Before the regulation of the food industry, there was very little preventing us from eating poison. 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 Crimes & Punishments Murder in Black & White By Nathaniel Rich A history of film noir, America’s cinematic take on life on the bottom. More
Essay Politics The Great Rift By Jeffrey Gettleman Jeffrey Gettleman on the 2007 Kenyan election crisis, and why in Kenya all politics is tribal. More
