Gazing at the eclipse in Walt Whitman’s perfect silence
Is it possible to love a science, or any branch of knowledge, despite one’s abysmal ignorance thereof?
Walt Whitman
Wednesday
Wednesday
How America influenced George Orwell
The legendary British author’s attitude to the US is curiously double-edged
Friday
The next so-called civil war
‘To-day the doctor says I must die — all is over with me — ah, so young to die’
Thursday
The Economist should be more like Walt Whitman
The paper’s election modeling betrays an undercurrent of anxiety
Tuesday
Getting Wilde in America
Oscar Wilde’s search for fame and himself
