Democracy by the Book

Antón Barba-Kay

Part of the political bizarreness of our time comes from the fact that the possibility of data’s neutrality is rarely disputed as such.

The Rakish Rogue Who Loved Me

Stephen Akey

Am I as highbrow as I think I am? Should I be?

Untranslated

Olga Litvak

The Jewish suspicion of confession is a kind of epistemological modesty, an unwillingness to examine other minds too closely.

Lessons of Babel

Jay Tolson

Translation draws us closer to the paradoxes of being both a member of the human species and an irreducibly distinct individual.

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Lessons of Babel

On what is lost and gained in translation.


Of Continuing Interest

A selection of articles from the archives

Cannabis as a Cultural Question

James Mumford

How are we ethically to evaluate the practice of getting stoned?

I Sing the Electric Body

Brian Patrick Eha

To begin a sentence is to launch into the void and syntax plays a large role in how you will land.

Principled to a Fault

Becca Rothfeld

On the face of it, Simone Weil is a remarkably poor candidate for domestication.

Taking Theology Public

Michael J. Lacey

How does one deal with the “trees and forests” complexity of a career like David Tracy’s?