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Angela Davis’s student years in France were an alchemy of discipline and distraction.

Going beyond the tale of a boy and his horse.

Christopher was moved, in his choice of objects of animosity, by an unstable mixture of calculation and conviction.

There is a message here about masculine privilege.

Two volumes of T.S. Eliot's letters elucidate how the momentous achievements of his art were determined by moments of awful daring.

Bettany Hughes's biography of Socrates is a book that Socrates himself, on a mean day, would have torn to shreds.

Charles Taylor is a sadly endangered type: the philosopher-statesman.

Isaac Casaubon was a model citizen of the republic of letters—a community more durable than any church and broader than academia.

Sara Mayeux on Gordon Liu, Molly O'Toole on mass incarceration, and kudos for Joshua Kors