An Ever More Perfect Novel
Tyler Malone
The Great American Novel? Why are we still banging on about that old thing?
The Distance from Our Food
Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft
Distance can breed ignorance of the ecosystems and individual animal lives that feed us.
Solving for André, Subtracting Simone
Robert Minto
A grotesque and caricatured version of Simone Weil undermines an otherwise good book.
Current Issue
Of Continuing Interest
A selection of articles from the archives
What Makes Me Black? What Makes You White?
W. Ralph Eubanks
Race is an absurdity. Yet as a means of defining and separating people, it retains its power.
We’re Here, That’s All
B.D. McClay
The trouble, as Robinson sees it, is that Americans have accepted a story about America that has stripped the country of its moral resources and heritage.
Package-Deal Ethics
James Mumford
The great curse of our generation is how political polarization is warping the way we think through our deepest moral dilemmas.
Populism
Wilfred M. McClay
Scholars have not always been the most objective students of populism, partly because their own interests are at stake, scholarship and expertise being so often numbered among the chief targets of populist abuse.