What emotion does your youth culture valorize and what social form does it envision?

William Deresiewicz takes inventory. For the hippies, the emotion was love: love-ins, free love, the Summer of Love, all you need is love. T...

"The Top 100 Influential Figures in American History."

I'm going to click through all this, beginning with Herman Melville at #100 — he's "the American Shakespeare." Come with ...