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The Devils’ Citadel
by
Alan Jacobs
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.
Prehistory’s Original Sin
We need more than genealogies to know who we are, and who we ought to become.
Borrowed Crowns
Monarchy and its symbols seem to retain an allure that is hard to resist—even if in jest.
Faulkner and Plath Go to a Play
The stage set becomes, in effect, a metaphor for the way individuality has been crushed in the modern world.
The Symbolic Capitalist Paradox
In trying to get a little for myself, why must I push someone else down?