![How to Feed the Poor](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59d2e63accc5c527d0980820/1556221681954-X9CO51Z17OK3Z7LB13A1/Good+bread.jpeg)
How to Feed the Poor
The thing about being poor is that the less you have, the more help there seems to be. We’re on the cusp.
![Starting Next Month, How Will the World Spell Europe?](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59d2e63accc5c527d0980820/1558313618451-N6TE75BJ4X046YI513UN/Kai1.jpg)
Starting Next Month, How Will the World Spell Europe?
Since when has blanket opposition become so much more attractive in democracies than, well, the work of thinking things through?
![Abraham Wept: The Future of Higher Education](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59d2e63accc5c527d0980820/1719764377126-NFFFCFKJPL5PW9WPBRP6/Hand.jpg)
Abraham Wept: The Future of Higher Education
I used to boast to friends from abroad about the quality and availability of our institutions of higher education. I fear those boasts now sound like PR.
![Review: Dragging Anchor](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59d2e63accc5c527d0980820/1555986660892-TH16FWZY06TVXZ1DNGMB/Dragging+Anchor.jpg)
Review: Dragging Anchor
What are young poets up to these days? Sometimes they invent a new gamelan, and sometimes they breathe original music through a master’s reed.
![Imbalancing Acts](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59d2e63accc5c527d0980820/1ffc9c1b-95aa-4bac-b0fb-cc5c2fcddc79/ekg+hat.png)
Imbalancing Acts
My need to counter what I saw as this country’s rightward tilt took the form of non-stop, 24/7 outrage — in the supermarket, the doctors’ lounge, at the dry cleaners, wherever I found a willing listener.
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Marcuse and the Last American Soldier
Has the last American soldier who will die in Afghanistan been born, yet? I don’t think so.
![Decline and Fall](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59d2e63accc5c527d0980820/1553193759072-04Q92ORQ8M92KNMPAARB/America.jpeg)
Decline and Fall
We have known for 30 years that we were storing up disaster for our descendants. They will be incredulous and enraged that we couldn’t bestir ourselves for their sake…