The Monster Discloses Himself
Phil Christman
There is a world within the world, and that world is not, as it is for the Marxist, a metaphor. It’s where the lizard people meet.
Mental Medicine
Joseph E. Davis
More disorder, more screening, more care: the familiar talking points, all dutifully repeated.
After Liberalism
Jennifer A. Frey
MacIntyre is philosophically an antiliberal, yet he provides no real alternative to liberal democracy.
From Frankfurt to Fox
Malloy Owen
There is the looming sense that critical theory is somehow near the center of the crisis of our time.
Current Issue
Of Continuing Interest
A selection of articles from the archives
The Cinema of Inadvertence, or Why I Like Bad Movies
Phil Christman
We bad-movie watchers have our own anticriteria, the sorts of badness we prefer.
Learning from Plants
Amy Wright
Michael Marder approaches question of ethics and ontology through a reflection on plant life, hoping to move metaphysics beyond the bounds of the human toward what he calls “vegetal existentiality.”
The Relatability Paradox
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
What could be more relatable than for your work life and private life to have merged into one?
Escaping the Matrix
Wilfred M. McClay
Membership without inquiry is bland and unthinking traditionalism; inquiry without membership is little more than captiousness or kibitzing.