Every issue has one section dedicated to a particular question. Collecting responses from a range of perspectives, these symposia prompt us to think about the values and ideas that shape our most urgent cultural and personal decisions.
Schooling Myself
I was four and a half, and had recently informed my mother that I needed to learn to read by my fifth birthday.
Beyond Neutrality
Protest exposes a tension between the university’s intellectual mission and its political ambitions.
The Velvet Ditch
“Happy hour at the City Grocery in Oxford, Mississippi is where the whole hip world would spend Thursday night if the Nazis won the war,”…
Commit Lit
In 2012, at the age of 25, I quit my part-time jobs cooking and cleaning houses and, having dropped out during my first semester seven…
