Making a Living Is More Than Work
Jonathan Malesic
Henry David Thoreau has a reputation for being suspicious of work.
Henry David Thoreau has a reputation for being suspicious of work.
Surely among the proper responses to despair is something more like disdain, contempt, loathing, a refusal to stoop—in short, a refusal to surrender?
COVID made visible the usually subterranean core of the liberal project, which is not merely political but anthropological.
What is the relationship between our conception of ultimate purpose and digital technology?
Every society in history has limited speech in some way, yet some have remained freer than others.
As a child, I thought that to be American was to believe in individuality, to support pluralism and equality, and to celebrate common holidays and eat common foods.
No longer fed by universal hope, Progress is instead driven by fear.
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.