Search results for “James Baldwin and Margaret Mead”
A Nonbeliever’s Case for the Bible: How a Secular Reading of Scripture Enlarges Our Experience of Beauty, Morality, and Transcendence
From Blake to Bach, why the ancient text long stripped of fact remains essential to our grasp of poetic truth.
The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time
How the debris of a landmark disagreement became the foundation of our present ideas about the fabric of existence.
Charles M. Schulz, Civil Rights, and the Previously Unseen Art of Peanuts
“My husband and I keep pertinent Peanuts cartoons on desks and bulletin boards as guards against pomposity.”
Pride, Prejudice, and the Provisions of Privilege: Margo Jefferson on Race, Depression, and How We Define Ourselves
“Privilege is provisional. Privilege can be denied, withheld, offered grudgingly and summarily withdrawn. Entitlement is impervious to the kinds of verbs that modify privilege.”
What Pet Should I Get? Dr. Seuss’s Previously Unseen Illustrated Wink at the Paradox of Choice and the Fear of Missing Out
“I know my stuff looks like it was rattled off in twenty-eight seconds, but every word is a struggle and every sentence is like the pangs of birth.”
A Cultural History of Santa: Margaret Mead’s Fictional Interview with the Jolly Gift-Giver Celebrating Generosity and the Universal Spirit of Giving
“Giving is itself a kind of thank offering.”
Margaret Mead’s Beautiful Letter of Advice to Her Younger Sister on Starting a Family in an Uncertain World
In praise of “living more intensely and doing better work” whatever life may throw your way.
How to Disagree: Amin Maalouf on the Key to Intelligent Dissent and Effective Criticism
“To approach someone else convincingly you must do so with open arms and head held high, and your arms can’t be open unless your head IS high.”
The Genes of the Soul: Amin Maalouf on Belonging, Conflict, and How We Inhabit Our Identity
“A person’s identity… is like a pattern drawn on a tightly stretched parchment. Touch just one part of it, just one allegiance, and the whole person will react, the whole drum will sound.”
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