The Metaphysics of Music

Posted on June 3, 2025
Image: From left, Thomas Tallis, St. Augustine of Hippo, Palestrina, and St. Thomas Aquinas/THR illustration.

Singing is not to be understood as an aesthetic sweetener.

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The Political Journey of Thomas Mann

Posted on June 5, 2025
Image: Illustration for Death in Venice by Maurice Denis/Alamy Stock Photos; photograph of Thomas Mann, Zürcher Museen.

Mann understood, almost too well, the allure of tradition and irrationalism, of the poetic and the mystical.

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The Self That Never Was

Posted on June 17, 2025
Image: THR illustration/Shutterstock.

We may be approaching a time when the illusion of selfhood is strengthened, not weakened, because we are surrounded by machines enacting it.

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