What kids are reading
Plus: Weird Donne, in defense of markets and more
Prufrock
Friday
Thursday
Can AI write real poems?
Plus: A 9,000-year-old shrine, why Christopher Alexander matters and more
Tuesday
The future of highbrow culture
Plus: The decline of the American elite, John Berryman’s letters, and more
Saturday
The end of the MLA
Plus: Evelyn Waugh in Hollywood, Wittgenstein at war and more
Thursday
A new magazine on the right
Plus: The state of higher ed, Greek myths and more
Tuesday
The limits of civic education
Plus: Picasso’s chaotic years, the birth of the foreign correspondent and more
Saturday
Nancy Pelosi reads Bono
Plus: C.S. Lewis’s medieval mind, the fall of Robespierre and more
Thursday
The identity cult
Plus: the great book of the Great War, T.S. Eliot’s letters and more
Tuesday
Jack Kerouac at 100
Plus: a succession fight at Scholastic, a walk through ancient Rome and more
Monday
Against ‘moral clarity’
Plus: the life and work of Meir Kahane, the end of second-run theaters and more
Thursday
Shackleton’s ‘Endurance’ found
Plus: medieval manuscripts, Stephen Hawking’s libido and more
Tuesday
What’s wrong with higher ed — and how to fix it
Plus: the Habsburg empress in her time, Adolph Reed on Jim Crow and more
Thursday
Accessible art
Plus: a defense of blurbs, teaching kids to read and more
Wednesday
The kids are not alright
Plus: typing Mrs. Dalloway, the Jewish revolt against Rome and more
Saturday
Saving the racist ‘Music Man’
Plus: a history of the bald eagle, Eros as monster, and more
Thursday
The Recording Academy riles classical musicians
Plus Heidegger’s gift, ‘Death on the Nile’ reviewed, and more
Tuesday
Fiasco at Imperial College
Plus the beginning of secularism, propaganda and art and more
Saturday
Killing with music and rhyme
Plus misreading Darwin, the summer of theory and more
Thursday
Remembering P.J. O’Rourke
Plus fur trade marriages, gamer Elon Musk and more
Tuesday
The decline of the Met
Plus, the history of ‘Blood Meridian,’ when artists competed for Olympic gold and more
