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.
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.
Upcoming 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.