Hunting the White Goddess
It seems that neo-paganism is attractive in part because it offers an identity to those who have rejected postmodern, deracinated versions of Christianity.
Pretending to Destroy Art to Save the World
by
Chiraag Shah
Posted on November 9, 2022
in THR Web Features
Image: Just Stop Oil activists throw tomato soup at Van Gogh’s Sunflowers, National Gallery, London, October 2022.
What we are seeing, then, is a fictional spectacle—a pseudo-iconoclastic event.
Frightschrift: Some Scary Stories for Halloween
The Hedgehog recommends.
Twenty Five Years After Imagined Worlds, What World Are We Living In?
Posted on October 26, 2022
in THR Web Features
Image: Microsoft CEO Bill Gates speaks on a television above a Windows 95 display at a store in Vienna, Virginia.
The world circa 2000 was not Napoleonic.
Feathered and Feather-Less Bipeds
Posted on October 21, 2022
in THR Web Features
Image: "Fowling in the Marshes," Tomb of Nebamun, c. 1350 BC. British Museum. Via Wikimedia Commons.
The genealogical approach has found surprising success in an unlikely genre.
The Uses of Artistic Extravagance
by
Alan Jacobs
Posted on October 10, 2022
in THR Web Features
Image: Jean-Luc Godard and some of his film posters.
Jean-Luc Godard, like Nietzsche and Wittgenstein and Heidegger, is worth paying attention to even when we think his work is bad
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