Poor Larry Summers. The president of Harvard University has good instincts. But he wants people to like him. So he starts off by saying things that are true but unpopular. Then people get angry with ...

Alcove 1 at the City College of New York is surely the most famous lunch table in American intellectual history. No Ivy League dining hall can compete. In the 1930s, a remarkable coterie of students ...

This article is authored by Elizabeth Pollitzer, director, Portia Ltd and Ylann Schemm, executive director, Elsevier Foundation.

Regarding Stefan’s posts below, let’s not forget Roger Kimball’s eyebrow-raising soup�on from The Women’s Quarterly, reprinted in that publication’s Spring 2003 issue. Austen, Aristotle, and ...