The Best of The American Scholar
10+ most popular The American Scholar articles, as voted by our community.
A quarterly journal of literature, science, and culture published by @PhiBetaKappa for a general readership since 1932.
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The Friend Zone
Mary Wollstonecraft’s ideas on what makes a marriage tick were downright radical for their time
The American Scholar on Books
The American Scholar on History
The American Scholar on Leadership
Solitude and Leadership
If you want others to follow, learn to be alone with your thoughts
The American Scholar on Poetry
The American Scholar on Writing
I’ll Be Seeing You
The search for traces of a beloved writer led to an uncertain pilgrimage—and a friendship that endured over distance and time
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From Counterculture to Culture
How a teenage rebel rose to the summit of British literary life
When Science Is Not the Answer
Sabine Hossenfelder considers the biggest questions in physics and philosophy
Obscura No More
How photography rose from the margins of the art world to occupy its vital center
The American Scholar: Joyas Volardores
Brian Doyle, who died on May 27, 2017, considers the capacity of the heart—including his own. Rest in peace.
Have Trowel, Will Travel
A new biography of 20th-century America’s greatest landscape architect
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