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A Clearing of the Ground | Christopher Benfey | The New York Review of Books
Hampshire College, 1970–2026
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Looking for Disneyland | Christopher Benfey | The New York Review of Books
Aug 20, 2025 - Lately I have found myself returning to a puzzling episode from my childhood in Richmond, Indiana.
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A Clearing of the Ground | Christopher Benfey | The New York Review of Books
Hampshire College, 1970–2026
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Christopher Benfey | The New York Review of Books
Christopher Benfey is a writer and critic based in Amherst, Massachusetts. He is the author of, among other books, the family memoir Red Brick, Black Mountain,...
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Road Trippers | Christopher Benfey | The New York Review of Books
Feb 23, 2026 - In a thirty-three day ramble along the Hudson and Connecticut rivers in 1791, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison encountered many of the issues that would end...
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A Wonderfully Ephemeral College | Christopher Benfey | The New York Review of Books
Apr 20, 2026 - 1. Of the self-styled “progressive” liberal arts colleges founded between the world wars—including Bennington and Sarah Lawrence, Goddard and a
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