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.

I Was Strengthened at the Movies

Alan Jacobs

The self-examination prompted by Malick’s films might lead to a place beyond philosophy.

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.

There Are Alternatives

David Ciepley

The colonization of the market by corporations has accelerated the process of business and wealth concentration.

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After Neoliberalism?

The old order may be dying, but the shape of a new one is still unclear.


Of Continuing Interest

A selection of articles from the archives

Wayward Leviathans

David Ciepley

How America's corporations lost their public purpose.

I Sing the Electric Body

Brian Patrick Eha

To begin a sentence is to launch into the void and syntax plays a large role in how you will land.

Taking Theology Public

Michael J. Lacey

How does one deal with the “trees and forests” complexity of a career like David Tracy’s?

Fanfares for the Common Man

Phil Christman

Those who write about the rural, white, poor South often alternate between disgust and empathy.