Outlaw or Criminal?
We Americans have a soft spot for the outlaw. But what distinguishes an outlaw from a criminal?
Black Oxygen
Cormac McCarthy gives us 500 pages of idiosyncratic wordplay without even cheap narrative excitement. Who does he think he is? Joyce? Faulkner? Melville? Well, yes.
Introducing the Summer Issue: Meritocracy and Its Discontents
Posted on July 1, 2016
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Time to meet the summer issue.
The Hedgehog Recommends: Summer Reading
Posted on June 30, 2016
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Hedgehog staff and contributors share their summer reading plans.
The World Our Parents Left Us
Throughout an increasingly fractured nation—and not just America, but other Western nations—too many citizens felt that they were being left behind...
Lessons from the Ring—Then and Now
In the sweat-and-blood parlor of the boxing ring, young people deal with feelings they seldom get controlled practice with, such as anxiety and anger.