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Want to Understand Literature? Start with Classical Music.
On the Deep Kinship Between Classical Music and the Written Word
Apr 17
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Liza Libes
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Ambitious Women Aren’t the Problem
What Victorian literature and modern social science reveal about why smart men marry smart women—and why Matt Walsh doesn’t get it.
Apr 14
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Liza Libes
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Top 10 Poets of All Time
Your Guide to Getting Started with Poetry
Apr 10
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Haunted by the Past: Tarkovsky, Dostoyevsky, and Demons
Memory, Guilt, and Generational Cycles in Tarkovsky’s Mirror and Dostoyevsky’s Demons
Apr 7
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Haunted by the Past: Tarkovsky, Dostoyevsky, and Demons
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Why Can’t Our Kids Write?
The Silent Crisis in Education No One Wants to Talk About
Apr 3
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Why Can’t Our Kids Write?
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Columbia University Never Cared About Free Speech… Until It Became Convenient.
Ideological Hypocrisy Turned a Campus Known for Censorship into a Sanctuary for Selective Dissent
Mar 31
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Columbia University Never Cared About Free Speech… Until It Became Convenient.
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Daddy, I Have Had to Love You: Desire in Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy”
Read the Thesis That Got Me Kicked Out of Columbia University's Honors English Program
Mar 27
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Daddy, I Have Had to Love You: Desire in Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy”
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Rebel Poets: The Importance of Writing in a Free Society
Plato believed in censoring passion. Do we see the same unfolding today?
Mar 24
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Rebel Poets: The Importance of Writing in a Free Society
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Stefan Zweig, Judaism, and the Death of Europe
How One of the 20th Century’s Greatest Writers Mourned the Cultural Suicide of His Spiritual Homeland
Mar 20
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Liza Libes
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Stefan Zweig, Judaism, and the Death of Europe
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Think Twice Before Attacking the Department of Education
Why Cutting Federal Education Funding Won’t Fix Academia—And Might Make It Worse
Mar 17
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In Defense of the Tense
Matt Sutherland Defends the Present Tense in Fiction Writing
Mar 13
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Why Conservatives Must Defend the Liberal Arts
The Case for Tradition, Intellectual Inquiry, and the Power of Reading
Mar 10
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