Why American Conservatives Get Viktor Orbán So Wrong
Viktor Orbán has become a canvas for the projection of hopes and fears about the future of democracy in the West.
In Praise of Bewilderment
Posted on August 24, 2022
in THR Web Features
Image: “States of Mind III; Those Who Stay” by Umberto Boccioni, 1911 [via Wikimedia Commons].
You can trade false simplicity for complicated truth.
Reaching the Adjacent
Are we willing to undertake the long, slow work of persuasion in a time of the politics of personal destruction?
A Fragile Future for Democracy
Posted on August 10, 2022
in THR Web Features
Image: Capitol riots, January 6, 2021; Pacific Press Media Production Corp. / Alamy Stock Photo
It is my belief that rapid technological “progress” will always threaten a culture with social regress, and that mitigating that threat should be a priority.
In the Ruins of Western Civilization
Posted on July 28, 2022
in THR Web Features
Image: Byzantine mosaic, Gaziantep Museum, Gaziantep, Turkey; Shutterstock.
We can learn from the outdated Western Civ model, even as we transcend it.
Past Lives of the Paragraph
Posted on July 14, 2022
in THR Web Features
Image: Paragraph marks from Edwin Herbert Lewis, A History of the English Paragraph, 1894; background: Shutterstock.
Making a new paragraph is as easy as drawing a thin line in the margin.
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