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It takes audacity to launch any new magazine, but it took a special sort of spirit to launch a magazine like the Wilson Quarterly in 1976. Beneath the glow of that year’s bicentennial celebrations, the nation bore a sickly pallor, and it was not merely coincidental that for the serious general-interest magazine it was a time of unusual peril.
Essays
In an age of ceaseless technological change, the need for historical and ethical perspective on public questions is greater than ever.
It is useful to step back from the debate over academic politics and values to see the evolution of the culture of higher education from a more impersonal perspective. One place to watch the change occurring is in the demise of the traditional academic disciplines.
It's easy to go on about how bad most academic writing is these days, and how it became so during the past 30 or...
Ours is the great era of infotainment, of the much lamented migration away from serious reading. The...