All articles from Common Reader
Does anyone even know whether students can still read a lot?
just accept uncertainty
Adam Smith's Burkean view of social cohesion
bands of love and affection and mutual good offices
Children need more reading time, education needs less politics
This is just common sense
Two hundred years of the RSL
A new prize and digitised archives
Shakespeare’s Tragic Art
by Rhodri Lewis
The online humanities revival continues apace
Kyla Scanlon explains the world with Lewis, Canetti, Girard, Tolkien
Misusing Mill's ideas to advocate for assisted suicide
Human beings owe to each other help to distinguish the better from the worse
Denmark exceeds Lilliput
They took someone's baby away for no reason
The Sound of Music's 60th anniversary: a masterpiece that celebrates civilization.
Lamenting the last golden years...
How the CIA secretly funded Encounter
Stephen Spender: unwitting spy
All's Well That Ends Well book club
SUNDAY 7 p.m. UK time, 2 p.m. Eastern
Serialized novel competition on Substack
$1,000 prize
Philistines want German schools to stop teaching Goethe.
damn them, damn them all
Vanity and productivity in Smith and the Irish Enlightenment
frivolous objects, little ornaments