Neither This Nor That
We view the concept of “compromise” from all sorts of oblique angles.
G.K. Chesterton and the Art of the First Nations
Posted on October 11, 2021
in THR Web Features
Image: Photo of Petroglyphs at Chumash Painted Cave State Historic Park by Carol M. Highsmith. Via Library of Congress.
The secrets of Jerusalem are also lodged in Jacksonville, Joplin, and Joliet
A Vision on a Summer Night
by
Alan Jacobs
Posted on October 19, 2021
in THR Web Features
Image: The Downs Malvern, Colwall, Herefordshire, United Kingdom.
Perhaps the older Auden merely wants to have the humility to accept the terms on which agape offers itself.
Why Carl Schmitt Matters to China
Posted on October 21, 2021
in THR Web Features
Image: Carl Schmitt in 1930; Ullstein Bild.
It would be prudent to take the Chinese at their word––especially if it is bound up in the mystifying language of Carl Schmitt.
The Silencing of the Lambs
Posted on October 26, 2021
in THR Web Features
Image: The Sheep and the Hunted Wolf by William Samuel Howitt [1811]. Via Wikimedia Commons.
We are here to ponder the longue durée of mutton in an age of capitalist wolves.