Return of the False Messiah
Understanding the extent of the threat posed by Bibi requires a broad historical perspective.
Artisans of Words
The emptiness of words, and our shared resignation to meaning manipulation, is no small matter.
Taking the Long View
Posted on December 29, 2023
Image: THR illustration (Bonki Studio/Shutterstock).
The historical novel strives to recreate not only the material dimensions of a past age but also its mindset.
Presentation and Power
by
Mark Dunbar
Posted on December 20, 2023
Image: Signs at the site of an Occupy DC protest, 2011, Shutterstock.
The protests and protest candidates failed because they lacked organizational structures and concrete policies.
Self-Censorship and Don Quixote
by
Alan Jacobs
Posted on December 14, 2023
Image: The Lion, illustration for Don Quixote, 1902, by William Strang, National Galleries of Scotland.
The language of self-censorship removes the question from the moral realm in which it properly belongs.
Autocracy Rising
Posted on December 12, 2023
Image: President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at a rally in Izmir in May 2023; Shutterstock..
Turkey presents an inversion of the usual presumptions about the current global struggle between liberalism and conservatism.