🎭 Culture Sep 8, 2026 · Blair Kamin

Portals to Eden

The American Scholar
American Scholar magazine
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This is matriculation season at American colleges and universities, which means that on many campuses, it is a season of gates—specifically, the ritual of passing through them (or posing in front of them) to celebrate the rich range of possibilities and relationships associated with the life of the mind.  The passage, crucially, is spatial as well as temporal. Gates aren’t mere entrances and exits—neutral dividers between town and gown, street A and quad B. At their best, from Harvard’s Johnston

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