High Priest of the Dark Enlightenment

Antón Barba-Kay

Curtis Yarvin is a consequential figure, but not on account of his body of thought.

Pascal’s Losing Wager

Emily King

For all Pascal’s accomplishments, the cause he came to be most identified with in his own time was a failure.

A Quarrel With the World

Alan Jacobs

Let us pass from hand to hand/The common gift of modest wisdom.

A Tale of Two College Towns

Phil Christman

The public university and the small-town college are the best and worst of higher education options.

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“The Character of Place” and “A Cultural Revolution on the Right”

Where we are and who we are becoming.


Of Continuing Interest

A selection of articles from the archives

What Is It Like to Be a Man?

Phil Christman

What is this thing we’re trying to be?

From Frankfurt to Fox

Malloy Owen

There is the looming sense that critical theory is somehow near the center of the crisis of our time.

Quantifying Vitality

Jackson Lears

Statistics in the Progressive Era were more than mere signs of a managerial government’s early efforts to sort and categorize its citizens.

Body and Soul at Table

Wilfred M. McClay

Food is a strong proof of our animality; it is equally strong evidence of how we transcend it.