Articles of Note

When artists had jobs. Philip Glass was a plumber; James Dickey, a sloganeer for Coca-Cola. Day jobs provided artists with space for stray thoughts. Can they still?... more »

New Books

Each generation of historians conveys the Jewish past in a way that's bound up with its vision of the Jewish future. Those visions generally turn out to be wrong... more »

Essays & Opinions

When did the sum total of a college’s intellectual value become reducible to its willingness to host controversial speakers?... more »