Neal Gabler, on how entertainment has become the highest value in our culture

C. John Sommerville, on How the News Makes Us Dumb: The Death of Wisdom in an Information Society

John L. Locke, on the value of personal interaction, and how technology is displacing it

Vigen Guroian, on gardening

Marion Montgomery, on how higher education has lost its way

Peter Berkowitz, on why liberal democracies need virtuous citizens

Harry Clor, on the need for the law to return to encouraging a public morality

Ted Libbey, on French composer Francis Poulenc