From the Editors

Joseph E. Davis and Jennifer L. Geddes

Thinking more deeply about how we can inhabit the public sphere with others.

From the Editors

Joseph E. Davis

What constitutes the public good of a liberal education?

From the Editors

Jay Tolson

Great as they are, the challenges of the digital age are not only profoundly intellectual and conceptual.

From the Editor

Jay Tolson

Reconsidering the complex relationship between humans and the wider animal kingdom.

Does Religious Pluralism Require Secularism?

Jennifer L. Geddes

What emerges in the essays in this issue is actually not one secularism, but rather a range of secularisms—French, American, Indian, and other—that can be compared, evaluated, and improved upon.

The Phantom Economy

Joseph E. Davis

The highly abstract and immaterial phantom economy is inextricable from the “real economy.”

The Roots of the Arab Spring

Joseph E. Davis

While structures of power may change quickly, the building of a new social order is a longer and more precarious process.

The Shifting Experience of Self

Joseph E. Davis

Social and cultural change, from the rise of the “information economy” to changes in family life to the technological mediation of our relationships, is happening all around us.

Work and Dignity

Joseph E. Davis

Work is not just an economic matter. Beyond survival, a range of other human values and ideals are at stake.

The Corporate Professor

Jennifer L. Geddes

Exploring the bureaucratization of the life of the mind.

Sustain-ability?

Joshua J. Yates

There seems to be little agreement on what it is that needs sustaining, let alone how we should go about it in practice.

Science and Moral Life

Joseph E. Davis

The successful marketing of the “new science of morality” suggests its considerable allure for the popular imagination.

The American Dream

Joseph E. Davis

How the American Dream—hope in the future—competes in these times with a pervasive pessimism.

Minding Our Minds

Joseph E. Davis

Demands on our attention come from the informational environments and shared physical spaces we inhabit. At issue are ethical questions about the conduct of civic life.

From the Editor

Jay Tolson

Reality is for people who can’t handle postmodernism.

From the Editor

Jay Tolson

Sketching a culinary ethos for the twenty-first century.

From the Editor

Jay Tolson

We children of the Enlightenment seem determined not only to seek out monsters but also to invent them.

From the Editor

Jay Tolson

Numbers are arguably humankind’s most useful technology.

From the Editor

Jay Tolson

Americans are beginning to inhabit separate nations.

From the Editor

Jay Tolson

Who do we think we are? And why do we keep seeking answers to that question?

From the Editor

Jay Tolson

The capital of the economists is not the only capital that “makes the world go ’round.”

From the Editor

Jay Tolson

Exploring the evolution, uses, and effects of the distinctly modern cultural ideal of authenticity.

From the Editor

Jay Tolson

One of the challenges facing the world’s liberal democracies today is their failure to reckon sufficiently with the sources of civic solidarity that only myths can provide. Acknowledging the necessity of myth should help us think more clearly, critically, and constructively about our political myths

The Use and Abuse of History

Kyle Edward Williams

History is far too important a thing to be reduced to the special possession of a class of experts.

Introduction: Hope Itself

Jay Tolson

The great danger of our time is the loss of hope.

Introduction: By Theory Possessed

Jay Tolson

While it is tempting to quip that theory is the opiate of the intellectuals, the addiction extends well beyond that single class.

Introduction: Theological Variations

Jay Tolson

A growing disenchantment with disenchantment has radically altered the intellectual terrain of the modern world.

Introduction: Markets and the Good

Jay Tolson

How, then, do we think beyond what has come to be the tyranny of economics—or perhaps more accurately, how do we put economics in its proper place?

From the Editor

Jay Tolson

It is the deficit of character that motivates the thematic focus of this issue of The Hedgehog Review.

The Varieties of Travel Experience

Jay Tolson

Travelers today typically seek meaning and purpose in their voyaging—but not always for the same reasons.

From the Editor

Jay Tolson

At the bottom of each of our system dysfunctions is a distinctive cultural disorder emerging from the many pressures of our rapidly modernizing world.

Introducing the Fall Issue: The Cultural Contradictions of Modern Science

Jay Tolson

As the power of science grows, its dominion extends even into areas of our culture where its proclaimed authority is questionable.