The American Scholar

Night Watch

f you were swept up in solar eclipse mania—as was Jessica Wilde, who writes about her obsession in this issue (“Corona Chasers,” Tuning Up)—then you may have read about the place now dubbed “the total eclipse crossroads of America.” That would

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