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.
A History Lesson from Alexander Hamilton
Posted on January 8, 2021
Image: Inside the US Capitol on January 6, 2021; CNN.
The events of January 6 went off script.
The School for Scale
by
Alan Jacobs
Posted on January 6, 2021
Image: Portrayal of discussion. Oliver Tacke via Wikimedia Commons.
The problem with scale is that we don’t understand it.
The Fantasy of Self-Forgiveness
Posted on January 4, 2021
Image: Scene from Boris Eifman’s ballet of The Brothers Karamazov (2019).
We need to preserve a distinction between recognizing our transgressions and resolving to change, on one hand, and imagining that we can forgive ourselves, on the other.