The Political Journey of Thomas Mann

Posted on June 5, 2025
Image: Illustration for Death in Venice by Maurice Denis; photograph of Thomas Mann, Zürcher Museen.

Mann understood, almost too well, the allure of tradition and irrationalism, of the poetic and the mystical.

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The Metaphysics of Music

Posted on June 3, 2025
Image: From left, Thomas Tallis, St. Augustine of Hippo, Palestrina, and St. Thomas Aquinas/THR illustration.

Singing is not to be understood as an aesthetic sweetener.

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Remembering Alasdair MacIntyre

Posted on May 23, 2025
Image: THR illustration; Alasdair MacIntyre (1929–2025) by Sean O’Connor, Shutterstock background.

The most creative, innovative, and profound MacIntyre was the one who thought about moral rationality.

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The Devils’ Citadel

Posted on May 15, 2025
Image: THR illustration/steam hammer, 1867, Paris, Shutterstock.

As people reflect on the chasm that separates their experience from that of their grandparents, everyone is confused.

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