Doctors and Democracy
The strength of ideologies and fads in the US helps to explain why physician involvement in public life has declined.
The Approach to J.L. Borges
by
Ed Simon
Posted on December 18, 2024
in THR Web Features
Image: “The Room of the Planets” by Érik Desmazières, 1997, from The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges; Warnock Fine Arts.
Consider just how bizarre fiction is.
American Literature and the Liberal Way of Life
A renewed attention to the American literary tradition may be one of the most important imaginative and spiritual exercises for restoring our liberal way of life.
Shakespeare the Suicide?
Posted on December 5, 2024
in THR Web Features
Image: THR illustration, public domain images.
Shakespeare’s plays are full of suicides, some noble, others not very.
Olympus Agonistes
by
Ed Simon
Posted on November 19, 2024
in THR Web Features
Image: The Triumph of Galatea, 1511, by Raphael (1583–1620); Villa Farnesina; via Wikimedia Commons; public domain in the United States.
War, Death, and Intellectualism
Posted on November 13, 2024
in THR Web Features
Image: THR illustration; letters between Freud and Einstein; the Romanian campaign, World War I/Alamy Stock Photo.
Intellectualism’s core activity is analysis—investigating how and why certain occurrences take place around us.
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