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This article will be released in full online December 4, 2023. It is no mistake that XYZ. In this interview with Zhao Dingqi of World Socialism Studies…

An overview of the wide-ranging American movement that emerged in post-war New York, illustrated with works offered at Christie’s

How the government secretly paid for the Boston Symphony Orchestra to promote American cultural enlightenment

WHAT happened at and after the Makerere Writers Conference held in June 1962? The significance of the Conference of Writers of English Expression held in

Originally 28 FEB 2017 It is often presumed that intellectuals have little or no political power. Perched in a privileged ivory tower, disconnected from the real world, embroiled in meaningless academic debates over specialized minutia, or floating in the abstruse clouds of high-minded theory, intellectuals are frequently portrayed as not only cut off from political reality but as incapable of having any meaningful impact on it. The Central Intelligence Agency thinks otherwise. As a matter of ...

Jack Thompson of All Trades A reminiscence of one of the most unusual New York intellectuals Although I spent eight years studying English at Stony Brook University, where I was an undergraduate from 1974 to 1978 and a Ph.D. student until 1983, I was never a good fit in academia. None of my professors was engaged in an activity that seemed even remotely appealing: If they weren’t eagerly annotating doodles and smudges in the margins of medieval psalters, they were overanalyzing some obscure ...