American Scholar

Presidents and poets.

EDITOR'S NOTE - Editorial

Buy a judge.

LETTERS - Letter to the editor

The man who was Edmund Burke.

LETTERS - Letter to the editor

Other voices.

LETTERS - Letter to the editor

The mind of Borges.

LETTERS - Letter to the editor

Web discovery.

LETTERS - Letter to the editor

The Scars of Genocide.

Letter from SREBRENICA - Essay

What Menus tell us.

WORKS IN PROGRESS - Brief article

Beware the squeezebox.

WORKS IN PROGRESS - Brief article

Six ways of looking at corporate greed.

WORKS IN PROGRESS

Ask what's not there.

WORKS IN PROGRESS - Brief article

Preserving the dead.

WORKS IN PROGRESS - Brief article

Being human.

WORKS IN PROGRESS - Brief article

Of mice and literature.

WORKS IN PROGRESS - Brief article

Olympic leftovers.

WORKS IN PROGRESS - Brief article

Freud's Immortal Question: or, one student's adventures in higher learning.

TUNING UP

The Clintons up close: a friendship between two couples yields insights into a presidency and a marriage.

Essay

Too Big to Fail and Too Risky to Exist: four years after the 2008 financial crisis, banks are behaving more recklessly than ever.

Essay

Liberty Is a Slow Fruit: Lincoln the deliberate emancipator.

Abraham Lincoln - Essay

The Voice Is Ready to Sing.

POETRY

Nigh Clime.

FOUR POEMS - Poem

Afternoon.

FOUR POEMS - Poem

How to Know When the Dead Are Dead.

FOUR POEMS - Poem

Recall.

FOUR POEMS - Poem

Mortify Our Wolves: the struggle back to life and faith in the face of pain and the certainty of death.

Essay

Love in Wartime: the epistolary romance of a Los Alamos scientist and a Radcliffe junior destined for poetic renown.

Essay

Letter to Posterity: a passion for philosophy led me to my first career, and a passion for art led me to a second, as a critic.

Essay

We Shall Go to Her, but She Will Not Return to Us.

FICTION - Short story

At Boquillas.

FICTION - Short story

Cassandra.

Poem