Captives of Desire
James E. Block
Neoliberalism rejected the assessment that the absence of constraints on desire undermined systemic viability.
Jane Austen’s Anti-Romantic Art of Happiness
Joshua Hren
Austen’s art detaches us from facile expectations about the future even as it discourages nostalgia for a simpler, smaller world of the past whose apparent order seems an easy refuge in our age of complex globalism.
Putting (Some Kind of) Families First
Deborah Dinner
Family policy is at the heart of an intense debate about the future of any plausible post-neoliberal governance.
Redeeming Jealousy
Marilyn Simon
It strikes me as a great loss that students today do not share in the great sublimity of their own humanity.
Current Issue
Of Continuing Interest
A selection of articles from the archives
Hamilton’s System
Jacob Soll
The US economy has succeeded with a most often nationalistic industrial policy in which government and industry work together.
When Science Went Modern
Lorraine Daston
This was the nightmare of scientific progress: The truths of today would become the falsehoods—or at least the errors—of tomorrow.
The King’s Two Bodies and the Crisis of Liberal Modernity
Isaac Ariail Reed
We are living through a vertigo in political culture.
Friendship and the Common Good
Andrew Willard Jones
Friendship is the reason for our lives. Nothing is more important.