Staying for the Truth
Alan Jacobs
The only way out of this prison of self-deception and self-justification is to love and seek the truth.
Real and Fake Accounts
David Bosworth
Exploring the social and psychological costs of a life increasingly lived online.
The Impotence of Being Clever
Alexander Stern
The cleverness that proliferates in public life today is a nuisance.
Upcoming Issue
Of Continuing Interest
A selection of articles from the archives
Why We Confess
Elizabeth Bruenig
Confession being fraught as it is with danger for both speaker and listener, the ordinariness of admission is probably the only thing that sustains it.
Cannabis as a Cultural Question
James Mumford
How are we ethically to evaluate the practice of getting stoned?
On Winter
Matt Dinan
It is hard to sustain the illusion that there is anything good about winter after the hundredth day or so.
The Metaphysics of the Hangover
Mark Edmundson
A hangover is about being poisoned, no doubt. The toxins linger in the body and must be expelled, or waited out. We’re sick with a mini-flu and need to get better. But isn’t a hangover about more than physical toxins, at least some of the time?