Articles of Note

Histories of philosophy are difficult to write. Bertrand Russell excelled. Then there's Peter Adamson's new, pun-laden work... more »

New Books

Can we learn moral heroism from books? The diary of Jean Guéhenno, mid-20th-century French intellectual, suggests so... more »

Essays & Opinions

Oliver Wendell Holmes's mollusk, Emily Dickinson's snake, Melville's Maldive shark: What about animals makes them such attractive poetic subjects? Their inscrutability, for one... more »