Daily Circuit

Op-ed pick: Is ‘The Great Gatsby’ all that great?
"Gatsby as a literary creation leaves me cold. Like one of those manicured European parks patrolled on all sides by officious gendarmes, it is pleasant to look at, but you will not find any people inside."
Five great thinkers about race
James Baldwin is "still ahead of us by 10 years in terms of understanding and thinking about and talking about race."