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Skip to content ABOUT PHI BETA KAPPA The Phi Beta Kappa Society publishes The American Scholar. Founded on December 5, 1776, Phi Beta Kappa is the nation's most prestigious academic honor society.
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Blades of Grass
Summon an image of an American home: Odds are there's a green grass lawn in front of it. Was this what Walt Whitman sang of in Leaves of Grass? Or was it the native grassland of the prairies, now disappearing under the onslaught of Poa pratensis, Kentucky
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Fractured Odysseus
Why does Odysseus weep? Seated as a guest of the Phaeacians, the wandering hero in disguise is treated to a feast, followed by entertainment: a bard regaling the audience with the story of Trojan War. As the singer tells of Odysseus's heroism and his crea
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Want to, Have to
My morning walk with Toby, my German shepherd, started as usual: I sternly told him he shouldn't be sniffing those nasty things in our path, and he politely lifted his gaze to indicate that he'd heard me and would take my warning into consideration. Then,
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"Wild Nights-Wild Nights!" by Emily Dickinson
Amanda Holmes reads Emily Dickinson's "Wild Nights-Wild Nights!" Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: [email protected]. If we select your entry, you'll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman. This epis
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Any Way You Can
In 1973, when I was a sophomore in college, my parents moved to Vietnam. My father was in the CIA and had been posted to Saigon as part of the U.S. mission to drive out the North Vietnamese forces threatening to overtake the South Vietnamese government. H
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