A Smiling Public Man - Salmagundi Magazine

   Seamus Heaney was born on April 13,1939 (12 days after me) and 3 months after the death of Yeats. The Letters* begin in 1965, his miraculous year. His first book, Death of a Naturalist...

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From Philosophy To Power - Salmagundi Magazine

René Girard’s Legacy This past summer, I was surprised to encounter a face I knew in two most unexpected places. The first was in a photo montage accompanying an article written by Josh Kovensky of...

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On Jane Jacobs - Salmagundi Magazine

The legend of Jane Jacobs centers on the writer who revolutionized our thinking about cities with her now-classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and the fearless activist who ...

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Guest Column Christopher Hitchens And The Necessity Of Universalism - Salmagundi Magazine

I.    The most alarming political trends today – the rise of nationalist authoritarianism, the spread of identity politics, the dysfunction and political violence in the United States, an...

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