Ralph Waldo Emerson, Constructed Languages, and More

Hollywood’s obsession with constructed languages started with The Lord of the Rings and continues in the latest Dune movie.

Hollywood’s obsession with constructed languages started with The Lord of the Rings and continues in the latest Dune movie... more »

Ralph Waldo Emerson lived in an age of reform. But he was wary of the crackpot ideas that swirled around him... more »

The best of W.H. Auden’s late work was animated by the tension between the aesthetic and the ethical... m…