James Baldwin v. William F. Buckley (1965)

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Albert Camus on the Will to Live and the Most Important Question of Existence

Undoing as Remaking: How Abraham Lincoln Drew Poetry and Power from His Suicidal Depression

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Open Thread

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

Today in Supreme Court History: February 12, 1965

Henry James embraced Fletcherism, which called for chewing every bite of food 100 times. The result was a nervous breakdown

Harold Bloom, James Wood, Jack Edwards. At just 27, Edwards, a YouTube and TikTok star, has become the most important literary critic in the world

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Oscar Wilde, William Morris, and John Ruskin were exemplars of socialist aesthetics, advancing the view that more leisure would result in better art

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From Nixon to Trump, the 'War on Drugs' Has Been a Disaster for Americans' Freedom

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