Thinking more deeply about how we can inhabit the public sphere with others.
Great as they are, the challenges of the digital age are not only profoundly intellectual and conceptual.
Reconsidering the complex relationship between humans and the wider animal kingdom.
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 highly abstract and immaterial phantom economy is inextricable from the “real economy.”
While structures of power may change quickly, the building of a new social order is a longer and more precarious process.
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 is not just an economic matter. Beyond survival, a range of other human values and ideals are at stake.
There seems to be little agreement on what it is that needs sustaining, let alone how we should go about it in practice.
The successful marketing of the “new science of morality” suggests its considerable allure for the popular imagination.
How the American Dream—hope in the future—competes in these times with a pervasive pessimism.
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.
We children of the Enlightenment seem determined not only to seek out monsters but also to invent them.
Who do we think we are? And why do we keep seeking answers to that question?
The capital of the economists is not the only capital that “makes the world go ’round.”
Exploring the evolution, uses, and effects of the distinctly modern cultural ideal of authenticity.
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
History is far too important a thing to be reduced to the special possession of a class of experts.
While it is tempting to quip that theory is the opiate of the intellectuals, the addiction extends well beyond that single class.
A growing disenchantment with disenchantment has radically altered the intellectual terrain of the modern world.
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?
It is the deficit of character that motivates the thematic focus of this issue of The Hedgehog Review.
As the power of science grows, its dominion extends even into areas of our culture where its proclaimed authority is questionable.