The Spirits I Have Summoned, I Cannot Banish Now!
The future of A.I. in Hollywood—and beyond.
From the Editor's Desk
Hail, West Virginia
American higher education cannot go on as it has.
Correspondence
Essays
Out of The Waste Land
T.S. Eliot’s modernist masterpiece.
Unfair Harvard
Did the Court actually abolish affirmative action?
Radical American
The wisdom and justice of James A. Garfield.
Once Upon a National Pastime
Roger Angell, baseball’s bard.
Pandemic Pandemonium
Science and civic accountability.
The Wages of Dobbs
And the confusions of conservative jurisprudence.
They Never Did Mend It
Affirmative inaction.
Where Mind Meets Matter
The quantum revolution, 100 years on.
Book Reviews
Lay of the Land
Ralph Vaughan Williams, musical nationalist.
The Accidental Originalist
Felix Frankfurter’s remarkable rise and his enduring legacy in American law and politics.
Brewer and Patriot
Samuel Adams’s political convictions were less doctrinal than communal and familial.
From One, Many
No one will fight and die for his country without something that transcends biological life.
Power Politics
We must steward modernity’s great achievement: the grid.
Hunting for Harmony
Only by embracing their distinct dignities can men and women protect their unity.
Lingua Americana
American English is the music accompanying the great American circus.
Plutocrats and Propagandists
The myth of the market.
The Ground of Judgment
Acknowledging the reality of the natural moral law.
The Dream and the Nightmare
American promises of freedom and equality have provided sufficient opportunity for blacks to improve their lot.
Modernity and Its Discontents
No one knows the way out of our present morass.
Uncivil Service
Our democratic institutions are incapable of dismantling union power.
Monsters to Destroy
John Quincy Adams, master of grand strategy.
Peg-legged Penman
Gouverneur Morris, forgotten founder.
Shadow Play
The Spirits I Have Summoned, I Cannot Banish Now!
The future of A.I. in Hollywood—and beyond.
Parthian Shot
An Immodest Proposal
America’s spark and tinder still exist.