Making a Living Is More Than Work
Jonathan Malesic
Henry David Thoreau has a reputation for being suspicious of work.
The Need for Mourning
Paul Franz
Surely among the proper responses to despair is something more like disdain, contempt, loathing, a refusal to stoop—in short, a refusal to surrender?
The COVID Regime and the Liberal Subject
Matthew B. Crawford
COVID made visible the usually subterranean core of the liberal project, which is not merely political but anthropological.
Enchantments of the One and Zero Mirror
Antón Barba-Kay
What is the relationship between our conception of ultimate purpose and digital technology?
Current Issue
Of Continuing Interest
A selection of articles from the archives
Taming the Furies
Martha Bayles
Every society in history has limited speech in some way, yet some have remained freer than others.
Unbecoming American
Johann N. Neem
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.
Being Left Behind
Felicia Wu Song
No longer fed by universal hope, Progress is instead driven by fear.
Democratic Authority at Century’s End
Jean Bethke Elshtain
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.