No symposium about what college is for would be complete without the perspectives of those for whom the question is most immediate: college students. This […]
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Read MoreAs 2020 comes to a close, we’re proud to present our top-ten most-read print essays of the year, listed below in reverse order. The topics […]
Read MoreWHEN THE EDITORS of this magazine began to talk about how to address this summer’s uprisings—hundreds of thousands taking to the streets in hundreds of American cities […]
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Read MoreAs 2019 draws to a close, we’re proud to present our top-ten most-read print essays of the year, listed below in reverse order. Although their […]
Read MoreWhat do you think is the best part of being a kid?
Read MoreThis fall and winter we invited people who work with the land—farmers, ranchers, foresters, ecologists and others—to tell us what they think the earth is […]
Read MoreAfter the midterms, we had our writers and editors reflect on what the election meant to them.
Read MoreFranz Kafka’s “In the Penal Colony” begins with a Traveler, described as a “great Western explorer,” learning about a “peculiar apparatus” of justice.
Read MoreThis summer, in partnership with Chicago Books to Women in Prison, we distributed a short survey to incarcerated women across the country, inviting them to tell us about their experience of living in prison.
Read MoreIntellectual Ex-Radicals and World Reaction: The Crisis of the Disillusioned Fellow-Travelers of Bolshevism Is Not the Same as a “Crisis of Marxism” (Trotsky 1939) The Intellectual: […]
Read MoreBy some indicators we are entering a new Dark Age: anti-intellectual fervor is raging, suspicion of experts is at an all-time high and appeals to reason are dismissed as passé.
Read MoreWe invited priests and pastors from across the country to participate in a short survey about the joys, challenges and day-to-day work of leading a church in contemporary America.
Read MoreIf you happened to log onto Facebook around Thanksgiving, you might have seen these words, blinking in white against an emergency-red background: “URGENT: If you’re not freaking out right now about net neutrality you’re not paying attention.”
Read MoreFinally, in Samuel Beckett, we have our poet-laureate of climate change.
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