In the Sideshadows
Everyone contributes to the pandemic, so all bear responsibility.
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?