A Stranger in the World: The Memoir of a Musician on Tour
The Hold Steady’s Franz Nicolay on DIY touring in the punk underground of the former Soviet Union.
Van Doren And The In Vogue
After 50 years, Vans shoes are going stronger than ever. Here’s how a hunk of canvas became and stayed an international icon of cool.
The String Theory
What happens when all of a man’s intelligence and athleticism is focused on placing a fuzzy yellow ball where his opponent is not? An obsessive inquiry (with footnotes), into the physics and metaphysics of tennis.
The Professor Wore a Hijab in Solidarity — Then Lost Her Job
A graduate of evangelical Wheaton College herself, journalist Ruth Graham writes about the ousting of its first tenure-track black professor, Larycia Hawkins, after she wore a hijab during Advent in solidarity with Muslim students.
My Friend Sam
A beautiful story about a friendship.
How U.S. Torture Left a Legacy of Damaged Minds
So much for assurances that harsh interrogation techniques used by the United States at Guantanamo Bay and in secret CIA prisons around the world wouldn’t cause lasting harm. New York Times reporters interviewed over 100 former detainees for this article on the never-ending psychological torment many of them live with years later.
The Prodigy Complex
Waylon Jenning’s famous country music lyric “Mammas don’t let your babies grow up to be cowboys” can be adapted to the tune of classical music prodigies, too.
The Virtue of an Educated Voter
An educated nation is an empowered nation. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Alan Taylor details the place of public education in the founding fathers’ vision of American democracy to argue that, even though their vision ignored African-Americans and women, we would benefit from thinking of education as a larger public good, not just an individual economic one.
Dangerous Idiots: How the Liberal Media Elite Failed Working-Class Americans
Trump supporters are not the caricatures journalists depict –- and native Kansan Sarah Smarsh sets out to correct what newsrooms get wrong.
The Fantastic Ursula K. Le Guin
A profile of the American writer and author, whose fiction helped transform the mainstream.
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