Schooling in the Age of Human Capital
Daniel Markovits
Metrics do not and, in fact, cannot measure any intelligible conception of excellence at all
Tell Me About Your Mother
Claire Jarvis
The ideal mother, as countless novelists have known, is a dead one.
The Amodernist
Jay Tolson
Péguy’s critical stance toward both broad coalitions made him neither a modernist nor an antimodernist, but something quite distinctive and instructive.
Expletive Defeated
Wilfred M. McClay
We need more profanity? Aren’t we already being inundated with it?
Current Issue
Of Continuing Interest
A selection of articles from the archives
Unbecoming American
Johann N. Neem
As a child, I thought that to be American was to believe in individuality, to support pluralism and equality, and to celebrate common holidays and eat common foods.
Invisible Science
Steven Shapin
The invisibility of embedded science is an apparently paradoxical, but reliable, index of the significance of science for everyday life—for government, for commerce, and, not least, for our sense of self.
Housework
Mary Townsend
Housekeeping doesn’t just enable us to dwell; housekeeping is dwelling, and also it is thought.
At the Gates of the Labyrinth
Paul A. Komesaroff
Pain and grief are among our most private, isolating experiences.