In his review of a new translation of Vergil's "Aeneid," David Barber suggests that the "Aeneid" is a particularly relevant book for American audiences because it's about a superpower experiencing the contradiction between its own ideals of democratic individualism and its less-than-democratic behavior ...
In a recent column, Kevin Roose '09 complained of feeling peer pressure to pretend he likes National Public Radio when he'd rather listen to Shakira ("The sound of snobbery," Oct. 13). Roose correctly identified a tendency among academics and college students to deliberately pursue obscure cultural ...
The first thing you'll notice about England is that things are small. This is a nation of country cottages, city houses packed tightly on each block, windy spiral staircases that lead to closet-size attic bedrooms and narrow cobbled streets that wind into themselves for lack of anywhere else to turn. ...
Last spring, the New York Times Magazine assessed the impact of the digitization of books in a universal library like those launched by Google, the New York Public Library and several universities this summer on intellectual standards in the coming decade. The Times argued that digitization would redefine ...
This past summer at the publishing house in New York where I worked, my fellow interns and I compared our experiences in finding summer positions. My peers were lucky - their schools connected them to alums in high places and provided financial grants so that they could live in the major cities where ...
On July 9, my family and I gathered to watch the final match of the World Cup. When France's outgoing veteran Zinédine Zidane - renowned for penalty kicks, clutch headers and his composure on the field - scored the opening goal, we cheered. We were rooting for France on Zizou's account, but we were ...
At 9 a.m. on a Thursday morning, I sat in a stuffy lecture hall and stared bleary-eyed at the first question on my American history midterm: "'The Federalists have been given a bum rap by historians; they were all good republicans.' Comment." Instead of thinking about my essay, I found myself considering ...
In his March 6 lecture on class in America, New York Times columnist David Brooks emphasized the importance of cultural factors in structuring social mobility. He described a new economic elite of bourgeois-bohemians who pass on their hyper-ambition and social skills to their children, creating a hereditary ...
One Saturday night, I saw "Capote" at the Cable Car Cinema. Though the film's subject is dark, I was optimistic as I left. On the walk back and in the hours since, I pondered the power of the non-fiction writer to tell truth in a way that is beautiful or entertaining, to realize the Keatsian thesis ...
One Sunday over break, my father was planning our dinners for the week.
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