This special collection gathers articles and interviews from the earliest days of Merion West, beginning with Erich’s first ...

Leaving Washington D.C. Behind—and a More Wholesome Life ◆ Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photographer of the Seton Hall Dorm Fire ◆ ...

Nathan Cofnas, who has catapulted to international renown amid the Jason Arday controversy, is a scholar whose work is difficult to dismiss—and who may have more staying power than his critics ...

All institutions intended to last require periods dedicated to renewal. This Collection coincides roughly with the one-year anniversary of Merion West’s second chapter, and its sharpened focus on ...

Perhaps in acknowledgment of how frustratingly all-consuming politics has become in the United States, despite my serving as the editor-in-chief of a magazine dealing in current events and still ...

“So as the college degree has increasingly become the great sorting function in American life, men without degrees have increasingly found themselves sorted out,” write the authors of Nobody to Call, ...

Patricia Martin joins Jonathan Church to discuss her new book that brings Jung’s ideas about the self and the persona into the age of social media and AI. Although concerned about technology’s toll on ...

In 1545, the world’s Catholic bishops gathered at the Council of Trent in order to address the growing problem of the Protestant Reformation. Reformers had many objections against Catholicism, but ...

As debates swirl in legislatures around the world about restricting children's social media use, senior editor Jonathan Church offers his own experience raising a daughter while limiting screens. The ...

University of Rochester lecturer Robert Rich turns to Tennessee Williams’s final play to challenge a culture that regards the elderly as burdens—a view now finding expression in public policy. As I ...

Journalism professor Robert Jensen considers how educators should handle contentious politics in the classroom, from the Iraq War to more recent American actions in Venezuela. He argues that honest ...

Despite soaring education costs, literacy among young people is declining. Education expert Bruno V. Manno explains how diplomas became detached from actual skills while offering a practical blueprint ...