 The journal, which has been characterized as "culturally conservative", aims to challenge "the cant and pretensions of academic priesthoods by publishing an assortment of lively, wide-ranging essays, notes, and reviews that are written in clear, jargon-free prose".The journal is normally published twice a year, in April and October, by the Johns Hopkins University Press.Circulation is 823 and the average length of an issue is 224 pages.