American culture

‘If We Don’t Adapt, We Will Wither Away’: Louis Menand on the University

"What we teach in the liberal arts — hermeneutics, history, and theory — are intended to help you do this. Professional schools don’t teach these things. You are not going to learn them anywhere else."

Why is Brazil so American?

by Marcos Sorrilha Pinheiro

Given Brazil's history, it is fully understandable that its current president, a retired military man from the Brazilian middle class, has a genuine admiration for Trump and his followers. 

Americans don’t believe in meritocracy — they believe in fake-it-ocracy

by Niall Ferguson

This illegal “side door” into college came into existence because the back door of a fat donation — like the $2.5 million paid by Jared Kushner’s father to Harvard — isn’t 100 percent reliable.

God and the Gridiron Game

by Paul Putz and Hunter Hampton

America's obsession with football is nearly as old as the game itself.