Jay Tolson is editor of The Hedgehog Review.
Numbers are arguably humankind’s most useful technology.
Péguy’s critical stance toward both broad coalitions made him neither a modernist nor an antimodernist, but something quite distinctive and instructive.
We children of the Enlightenment seem determined not only to seek out monsters but also to invent them.
Sketching a culinary ethos for the twenty-first century.
Reality is for people who can’t handle postmodernism.
Who is secular man, and why is he so unhappy?
Reconsidering the complex relationship between humans and the wider animal kingdom.
How do we judge the adequacy, efficacy, or value of various forms of identity in our struggle to secure not only equal rights and privileges but also meaning and community?
Great as they are, the challenges of the digital age are not only profoundly intellectual and conceptual.
What does dominion “over every living thing that moves on the earth” mean? Brute sovereignty and ruthless exploitation? Or thoughtful stewardship and responsible cultivation?
As the power of science grows, its dominion extends even into areas of our culture where its proclaimed authority is questionable.
Summer reads from THR staff and friends.