Essay Politics Between the Lines By Robert Boyers A look at the crossroads where literature and politics meet, and the relationship between art and ideas. More
Essay Sports & Games Blossom and Fade By John Crowley Hermann Hesse’s The Glass Bead Game is an experience with the pathos and wonder of all games—the game that is the universe. More
Essay Rule of Law Land of the Lawless By Ralph Nader How power in America has turned the rule of law into a mere myth. More
Essay About Money Fortune’s Wheel By Jackson Lears For many in Western history, games of chance represented a portal of possibility, not a heresy to be demonized or a statistical probability to be managed. More
Essay States of Mind The Ghost and the Princess By Anthony Gottlieb The correspondence of René Descartes and Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia—a debate about mind, soul, and immortality. More
Essay Democracy A Story of Use and Abuse By Arlene W. Saxonhouse Athenian democracy in the political imagination. More
Essay Rule of Law Immune from the Law? By Joan Cocks The curious case of the sovereign citizens movement. More
Essay Magic Shows W.B. Yeats, Magus By Jamie James For William Butler Yeats, poetry was a kind of magic. More