The COVID Regime and the Liberal Subject
Matthew B. Crawford
COVID made visible the usually subterranean core of the liberal project, which is not merely political but anthropological.
Narrative Corruptions
Mike St. Thomas
Though we must use stories to explain the world to ourselves, we must stay vigilant to their power to close off reality itself.
The Need for Mourning
Paul Franz
Surely among the proper responses to despair is something more like disdain, contempt, loathing, a refusal to stoop—in short, a refusal to surrender?
Remembering Henry Pleasants
Martha Bayles
What Pleasants found in the Afro-American idiom was a body of music intended to comfort the afflicted.
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Of Continuing Interest
A selection of articles from the archives
Being Left Behind
Felicia Wu Song
No longer fed by universal hope, Progress is instead driven by fear.
A Tale of Two Stories
Angel Adams Parham
Were it not for this creative, constructive impulse, the fire next time would have burned this country down many times over.
Democratic Authority at Century’s End
Jean Bethke Elshtain
The democratic story added the following to the idea of civic order: Through pledges and promises—a social contract or covenant—persons throw in their fortunes with one another. They seek not a perfect world, but a better one. And authority is necessary to its realization.
You’re Not the Boss of Me
Rita Koganzon
The liberty of the adult citizen depends on the subordination of the prepolitical child.