Finding Fukuyama’s Ends
Western liberal democracy is something worth aspiring to—an optimal destiny, not an imminent fate.
Changing Times
Once upon a time there was a publication that was doing all it could to tell a straight story and to listen to all sides.
Who Killed Essentialism?
Posted on July 16, 2021
Image: Study B by Pedro Ribeiro Simões. Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Modern Collection, Lisbon, Portugal. Via Wikimedia Commons.
We seem to be unable to do without our essences.
The Idiosyncratic School of Reading
Self-knowledge and pleasure, the Idiosyncratics teach us, go hand in hand through the library.
Writing a Life
by
Alan Jacobs
Posted on June 29, 2021
Image: Bookstore mural in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Hermann Hesse at center; via Wikimedia Commons.
The question I want to ask is simply this: Is the writing of a Life a game that, in our current moment, can be played?
Critical Theory and the Newest Left
Posted on June 25, 2021
Image: Mural of Theodore Adorno. Underground station Bockenheimer Warte, Frankfurt. Via Wikimedia Commons.
Corporations are not defanging a threatening ideology but welcoming it back home from a field trip.