We meet people like John Erskine, the grandfather of the Great Books movement and a “gentleman of the old school,” as Beam describes him. Erskine believed a great book was one that “has meaning, and ...

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Editor’s Note: Regular readers of The Next 30 Years will already know Annika Hernandez, even if they haven’t yet seen her byline. She has been a frequent researcher, editor, and intellectual sounding ...