Essay Arts & Letters The Sacred Word By Sabiha Al Khemir By beautifying the word of God, the medium and the message became interconnected. More
Essay Medicine Great Expectations By Noga Arikha Medicine was once a humanistic endeavor, an art as well as a science. Today both doctors and patients fail to see that we are more than just our bodies. More
Essay Food It’s What’s for Dinner By Scott Korb To be an ethical eater, one can no longer betray a deep ignorance about the workings of nature. More
Essay Education A Means to an End By Michael D. Hattem The intertwined history of education, history, and patriotism in the United States. More
Essay The Future Magical Thinking By Ben Tarnoff Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward presented a twentieth century that was free of nineteenth-century drudgery. More
Essay Communication Native Tongues By Simon Winchester The making of the Dictionary of American Regional English, a five-thousand-page, five-volume book documenting the history of American slang. More
Essay Family The Stories We Live With By Philip Connors Death turned his brother into a cipher, and it would take a return home to collect the pieces of a shattered life. More
Essay Politics Working the Room By Michael Phillips-Anderson Presidential humor from Lincoln to Kennedy to Reagan. More