Alan Jacobs, on the seafaring fiction of novelist Patrick O'Brian

Barry Sanders, on the deeper dynamics of literacy

Mark Slouka, on bizarre Gnostic temptations in cyberspace

Alan Ehrenhalt, on how valuing choice hurts community

Geoffrey T. Holtz, on twenty-somethings and the shape of family life

Mardi Keyes, on dubious assumptions about the nature of adolescence

Brad Wilcox, on tradition and belief

Glenn Loury, on race and relationships

John Hodges, on the influence of Russian Orthodoxy in the music of John Tavener