Today´s museum buildings get more attention than the exhibits they house.
Why did so few Islamic leaders forthrightly condemn the attacks of September 11? It´s the latest symptom of a crisis of authority that has been building for more than a century--and which now must be resolved.
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...
How the academic legal establishment failed to live up to its public responsibilities in the 2000 election.
In their 1940 book The Pulse of Democracy, George Gallup and Saul Rae defended a new instrument, the public...
Americans are said to be notoriously indifferent to the past. They are thought to be forward looking, practical...
Papa Hemingway was a star. He gambled on fame and mostly won. But the old American fear that luck might run out caught up to him, too, in the end.