Pantheon Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/pantheon/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:19:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png Pantheon Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/pantheon/ 32 32 Can Novels Make Amends? https://www.publicbooks.org/can-novels-make-amends/ Mon, 15 Mar 2021 15:00:36 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=41863 Novelists from George Eliot to Mary Gordon ask readers to confront our lives as ethical dramas that run only once, and with great consequence.

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]]> The Worst of All Possible Worlds? https://www.publicbooks.org/the-worst-of-all-possible-worlds/ Mon, 20 Jul 2020 15:00:32 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=37306 The most interesting science fiction is not about the future at all but about the present.

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]]> Who’s Afraid of Affirmative Action? https://www.publicbooks.org/whos-afraid-of-affirmative-action/ Tue, 03 Mar 2020 16:00:31 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=34202 “The rich diversity at Harvard and other colleges and universities and the benefits that flow from that diversity,” argued Massachusetts Federal District Judge ...

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]]> Oedipus at the Border https://www.publicbooks.org/oedipus-at-the-border/ Mon, 11 Nov 2019 16:00:09 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=32071 The US has never been a democracy. Perhaps, for some, the most recent indefinite imprisonment of undocumented immigrants in concentration camps finally shattered confidence in this US fantasy. And yet, for others, no amount of ...

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]]> Whose Life? https://www.publicbooks.org/whose-life/ Wed, 18 Sep 2019 15:00:40 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=30599 This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom, by the philosopher Martin Hägglund, who teaches at Yale, is a book anyone committed to public-facing scholarship ought to take note of. This is all the ...

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]]> Brexit or Utopia? https://www.publicbooks.org/brexit-or-utopia/ Wed, 18 Apr 2018 15:00:49 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/?p=20087 Ali Smith’s Autumn, the first installment of a four-volume “seasonal quartet” that now continues with Winter, was hailed on its release as “the first great Brexit novel.” As any reader of the book knows, there ...

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