"The great majority of British naturalists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in fact considered foreign organ…"

"Darwin was a traveler, a family man, a thinker, a much-loved husband, father, friend, and neighbor—a likeable and gen…"

"Tolkien has become a monster, devoured by his own popularity and absorbed into the absurdity of our time. The chasm b…"

"The West, at bottom, is a form of society, rather than an area. It is the term applied to the region whose social con…"

"American democracy was born of no theorist's dream; it was not carried in the Sarah Constant to Virginia, nor in the …"

"The Truth-Seeking Vision insists that the university’s overriding aim should be the preservation, pursuit, and promot…"

"Manifest Destiny and imperialism were traps into which the nation was led in 1846 and in 1899, and from which it extr…"

"With the age-old goal of universal prosperity within sight, we must question whether the methods—technological values…"

"Perhaps it is symbolic that Brook Farm, initially the most American of our Utopian communities, perished in a holocau…"

"Is it that we think the brain too small a place to hold more than one language at a time? That room for Spanish or Na…"