The Loss of Longing in the Age of Curated Reality
Christopher Yates
Desire has become longing’s counterfeit.
Desperately Seeking Stillness
Nathan Goldman
Life at prestissimo requires moments of adagio, even of larghissimo.
Hipster Elegies
Greg Jackson
The death and life of the great American hipster offers an alternative history of culture over the last quarter century.
Liberatory Education
Leslie W. Lewis
Education in the service of reparation can heal and make whole both individual persons and all of us.
Current Issue
Of Continuing Interest
A selection of articles from the archives
Being There
Wilfred M. McClay
A human person is a historical being, in whom the past remains immanent in the present, and whom the wear and tear of time enhances rather than diminishes.
Teachable Moments
Danielle Charette
Not every endeavor aimed at improving the political literacy of adults is headed by undemocratic schoolmarms.
After the Vernissage
Greg Jackson
The principal experience of the art I encountered, I found, was not the art itself, but the uncertainty and complexity of my own subjective response.
Defender of Utopia’s Remnant
Charles Mathewes
Even as he was sharpening and deepening his critique of capitalism’s effects on democracy, Habermas never jettisoned his faith in the idea of democracy itself.