He was a spy, a Zen priest, a fisherman, and a Bigfoot obsessive: Peter Matthiessen never had just one life

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Thomas Nagel · I’m not sorry: Should we punish?

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Are You Enjoying Our Linguine?

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Living in Berlin during World War II was like dancing on a volcano — full of raucous parties between the bombing raids

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Nicholas Christakis was at the center of Yale's Halloween controversy. He wants to move on. The culture war has other ideas

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How to Revive Liberal Education

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The rise of the literary nepo baby? The children of famous novelists on following in their parents’ footsteps

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Reality emerges

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The problem with a literary culture of images is that images have an exceptionally short shelf life. People soon grow bored with them

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"Cultural Marxism" means whatever you need it to mean. Which is why it never goes away.

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There are plenty of reasonable grounds on which to criticize the Frankfurt School. Why resort to delusional fantasies?

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It’s been over a decade, and scholars of the new history of capitalism have no more sense of a system now than when they began. What went wrong?

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Zoom out and it becomes clear that the defenders of humanistic liberalism have been decisively losing the battle over ideals

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Growling in a corner: Samuel Johnson’s lost years

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The Trouble With Narrative History

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Bolaño envy. Is Latin American literature, in its totality, more important than literature produced in the United States?

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James Schuyler, the New York school's most neglected poet, may now be its most necessary

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There Is No ‘Hard Problem Of Consciousness’

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The Wrong Kind of Black Poet

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Jonathan Swift Wrote His Own Epitaph. Was It a Joke?

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