The man therefore who does what he ought moves steadily towards his fate and his death. It...
J.L. Wall
J.L. Wall is a native Kentuckian in self-imposed exile to the Midwest, where he teaches writing to college students and over-analyzes Leonard Cohen lyrics.
Andrew Sullivan, responding to Jeffrey Goldberg, writes: If no American Jew can conceive of a situation in...
The reasons why people initially cared about Allison Benedikt’s essay on … something to do with changing...
Ezra Klein offers a strong response to the right-place, right-time, right-attitude argument about George Washington’s greatness. As...
The Big Man comes on at about 4 minutes in. Strange to think of Clarence Clemons and...
Brandon Watson and Kyle Cupp both explore possible solutions to the “paradox of fiction”: We human beings...
I’ve wanted to respond to this Yglesias post on Ron Chernow’s Washington: A Life for some time...
While Confederate women and civilians pressured their sons, husbands, brothers, and fellow-citizens into fighting, those men, like...
INTERVIEWER Had you been alive during the Civil War, would you have fought for the Confederates? FOOTE...
Ta-Nehisi Coates thinks about the way we think about sports: Sports narratives strike me as a kind...
“[I]t is an established fact that a preponderance of religious imagery or an avowed religious intent can...
My posts on the Israel-Palestine question two weeks ago led to requests for a primer on the...
Daniel McCarthy finds reasons for optimism in the “death of the book” — the potential of the...
What do Nabokov, Hemingway, Montesquieu, Wittgenstein, Stendhal, Proust, Shakespeare, Dickens, Faulkner, Solzhenitsyn, and Trollope have in common? ...
John Talbot discusses the history of (Classical) translation, and the flaws of the task’s contemporary nature. A worthwhile,...
“I believe you have a great thing. The great thing is, you have a president for four...
If John Demjanjuk’s conviction is—as seems likely—the final act of an international quest for justice that began...
In my previous post on this topic, I concluded with a warning that, if the UN recognizes...
“This is not a conflict about 1967 but about 1948, when the State of Israel was established,”...
As the narrator turns his eye to Grant’s first Eastern campaign—the Forty Days—the shift is from chivalry...
