The Almost Unbearable Burden of Belonging
What to become? Dissident or emigrant? Move abroad?
David Hume’s Guide to Social Media
The cultivation of taste, in morals as well as in art, is neither snobbish nor elitist.
After the Fall of Silicon Valley Bank
It is time for the tech world to start thinking institutionally.
On Fiction’s Lawlessness
Posted on March 23, 2023
Image: A Shandean illustration including archival snippets from a Cruikshank engraving, the famous marbled page, and one of Sterne’s squiggles.
If there is a war between database and narrative in Cervantes and Sterne, it is a merry one.
The Beatles and the Glory of Creative Risk
Posted on March 27, 2023
Image: Beatles tribute in Yekaterinburg, Russia, by Fedor via Unsplash.
It took the roiling events of 1963 to open the ears and hearts of the American public to the Beatles.
David Hume’s Guide to Today’s Politics
The primary social forces disrupting American society today are modern versions of two false religions.