Simone Weil Against Distraction
For Simone Weil, attention was akin to prayer.
Chatbots and the Divine
Posted on October 15, 2025
in THR Web Features
Image: THR illustration/Shutterstock.
We get nowhere near knowing, much less loving, another person through impersonal means.
Liberal Society Isn’t for Everyone
Our society needs a certain kind of person and our society shapes a certain kind of person. How to align the two?
The Disenchantment of Baseball
by
Nick Burns
Posted on October 1, 2025
in THR Web Features
Image: THR illustration; David W. Leindecker/Shutterstock.
The strike zone is not reducible to the simple rectangle displayed on TV broadcasts.
Murder in the Posthuman Age
by
Julia Friedman
and
David Hawkes
Posted on September 24, 2025
in THR Web Features
Image: THR illustration/Shutterstock.
Six centuries after Gutenberg, the Internet has had a malignant effect on the public mind.
My Lai Memorial
Posted on September 17, 2025
in THR Web Features
Image: Wikimedia Commons via IMS Vintage Photos
We hold two apparently contradictory beliefs about war.
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