The Age of the Average
Olivier Zunz
How did we reach the age of the average, and what did it mean for American democracy?
How did we reach the age of the average, and what did it mean for American democracy?
Cutting anti-natalists down is one thing, but building up the left’s case for children is more difficult.
A new book finds Auden negotiating and renegotiating his relationship with the island on which he was born.
Our contemporary culture is a culture of nihilism without nihilists.
The democratic story added the following to the idea of civic order: Through pledges and promises—a social contract or covenant—persons throw in their fortunes with one another. They seek not a perfect world, but a better one. And authority is necessary to its realization.
Contending with a radical distrust of the created world.
For some friends of the library, no defense of the stacks is necessary.