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The Phi Beta Kappa Society's quarterly. Humanities essays, criticism, and memoir, often by working scholars writing for general readers.

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“For Grace, After a Party” by Frank O’Hara

Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “For Grace, After a Party” by Frank O’Hara appeared first on The American Scholar.

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A different kind of glass ceiling The post Jason McDonald appeared first on The American Scholar.

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Jack Benny's comic rival starred in a program refiguring "Weekend Update" and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

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The familar story of Pocahontas was mirrored by that of a young Englishman given as a hostage to her father

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Remember Statecraft? - The American Scholar

What diplomacy can do and why we need it more than ever

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C. S. Lewis and his friend J. R. R. Tolkien believed that truths are universal and that stories reveal them

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Identity Crisis - The American Scholar

Who was the real Tolstoy?

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Let’s hope so

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