The American Scholar is the venerable but lively quarterly magazine of public affairs, literature, science, history, and culture published by the Phi Beta Kappa Society since 1932. In recent years the magazine has won four National Magazine Awards, the industry's highest honor, and many of its essays and articles have been selected for the yearly Best American anthologies.In 2006, The American Scholar began to publish fiction by such writers as Alice Munro, Ann Beattie, Steven Millhauser, Dennis McFarland, Louis Begley, and David Leavitt. Essays, articles, criticism, and poetry have been mainstays of the magazine for 75 years.Inspired by Ralph Waldo Emerson's famous speech, The American Scholar, delivered to the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Harvard College in 1837, the magazine aspires to Emerson's ideals of independent thinking, self-knowledge, and a commitment to the affairs of the world as well as to books, history, and science.Kindle Magazines are fully downloaded onto your Kindle so you can read them even when you're not wirelessly connected. This magazine does not necessarily reflect the full print content of the publication.
J**T
It's like reading tomorrow's headlines a couple of months ahead of time
What I especially like about the American Scholar is that it is a showcase of the best scholarship. So much of what passes for research is merely a compendium of cut and paste items pasted together like paper mâché. In the American Scholar, the articles delve deeply into the matter at hand and by the end of the article the reader has gained not only knowledge but some wisdom as well. Thus, it is like reading tomorrow's headlines ahead of time. The news takes time to catch up with wisdom.
M**Y
Very Informative
Like the depth of analysis
R**R
BEWARE NEW EDITOR 2005
The first issue under the guidance of its new editorial staff showed what the PBK board must have had in mind. The magazine has adopted now a current-events bent, in place of the more insulated material that many found so appealing before. Photos are now part of the format- not good photos, or color photos, or anything like that, just waste-of-space photos. Oh yeah, in a nutshell, the pen is gone from the cover. The changes bring a once-great journal down to a level of mediocrity that results from trying to compete in a game that is not their own. I will not be renewing.
J**D
A constant joy for the mind
I have been reading the Scholar for almost 60 years now and continue amazed and delighted both at the continuing depth and relevance of its analyses and the quality of its writing. It is its own little corner of an Eden for the mind for those who have sought it out. Media have changed over half a century now, but the delight it brings ia a constant.
T**M
Unexceptional
I don't see any place for this magazine in a world where you can subscribe to The Wilson Quarterly and The Atlantic for incisive coverage of politics and current events (not to mention book reviews), or McSweeney's for short stories and poetry, or The New Yorker for a generous weekly dose of all of the above. The book reviews are often quite good, but the other content in The American Scholar has never stood out to me.
R**T
good read
I liked it
K**R
The articles are well written
I liked the articles and used it for learning.
R**Y
American Scholar Mag
Well written, provocative, academically sound.....
S**T
A Treasury of intellrctual Ideas
The articles are always interesting and well written. There is a wide range of topics as well.
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