Changing Times
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Who Killed Essentialism?
Posted on July 16, 2021
in THR Web Features
Image: Study B by Pedro Ribeiro Simões. Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Modern Collection, Lisbon, Portugal. Via Wikimedia Commons.
We seem to be unable to do without our essences.
The Idiosyncratic School of Reading
Posted on July 13, 2021
in THR Web Features
Image: Virginia Woolf. Via Wikimedia Commons
Self-knowledge and pleasure, the Idiosyncratics teach us, go hand in hand through the library.
Writing a Life
by
Alan Jacobs
Posted on June 29, 2021
in THR Web Features
Image: Bookstore mural in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Hermann Hesse at center; via Wikimedia Commons.
The question I want to ask is simply this: Is the writing of a Life a game that, in our current moment, can be played?
Critical Theory and the Newest Left
Posted on June 25, 2021
in THR Web Features
Image: Mural of Theodore Adorno. Underground station Bockenheimer Warte, Frankfurt. Via Wikimedia Commons.
Corporations are not defanging a threatening ideology but welcoming it back home from a field trip.
The Desk
by
Mike Rose
Posted on June 24, 2021
in THR Web Features
Image: A poster from the 1950s science fiction adventure series Space Patrol.
These were places where I could imagine anything, be anybody. Space travel was new, fresh, a laboratory of possibility.
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