An Appeal for Friction Writing
Our writing process lacks sufficient resistance, hesitation, reconsideration.
The Lessons of GameStop
Posted on January 28, 2021
Image: Facade of the New York Stock Exchange. TomasEE via Wikimedia Commons.
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Just exactly who are the barbarians at the gate?
Love and Death
“Quality of life” calculations leave out far too much that matters for human flourishing.
More Than Just a Word
Americans have been making arguments about the nature of their unity from the beginning.
Is Trumpism Marxism?
Posted on January 14, 2021
Image: Karl Marx, public domain; President Donald Trump/Montinique Monroe/Getty Images.
On the dangerous absurdity of political caricature.
Our Manorial Elite
by
Alan Jacobs
Posted on January 12, 2021
Image: Palmse manor house in Estonia. Abrget47j via Wikimedia Commons.
Call them warlords or the manorial elite, our massive transnational tech companies will protect us only when they believe it is in their interest to do so.