A Jazz Age Mystery in a Reimagined America
Alan Jacobs
A murder mystery that is also an impressive sociological imaginary.
A murder mystery that is also an impressive sociological imaginary.
The protests and protest candidates failed because they lacked organizational structures and concrete policies.
John von Neumann’s life ended the way many of those of his intellectual caliber end: in madness.
The philosophical divide doesn’t neatly correspond with our political divide. There are egoists on all sides, just as there are altruists.
The cultural legacy of Bruno Schulz.
It seems that neo-paganism is attractive in part because it offers an identity to those who have rejected postmodern, deracinated versions of Christianity.
The genealogical approach has found surprising success in an unlikely genre.
Warikoo might have explored the ways in which Asian cultural repertoires matched up with the neoliberal transformation of our schools and colleges.
The face we present to the world is the primary signifier we possess.
The circumstances that led to veneration of the tsar and his family cannot be so easily reduced to a reactionary craving for Christian theocracy.
There is no shortage of jeremiads about the American university.
Just as Mims worries now over the unfulfilling tedium of employment at Amazon, Smith worried over the deleterious effects of monotonous work.
Mainline Protestant ministries to migrants had unintentionally opened the door to their diminished cultural dominance
Nature knows what is best for itself better than we do.
Throughout the book, Sherrell eschews the phrase “climate crisis,” substituting a much more nebulous term: “the Problem.”
We are here to ponder the longue durée of mutton in an age of capitalist wolves.
We view the concept of “compromise” from all sorts of oblique angles.
Pretending that all workers are the same obscures rather than clarifies the reality of class.
It’s easy to see how lectures got a bad rap. We have all been subjected to someone who abused the privilege of an audience.
Western liberal democracy is something worth aspiring to—an optimal destiny, not an imminent fate.
We are distinctly susceptible to businesses that ingeniously cater to and profit from our greatest vulnerabilities
Liberalism today finds itself in the strange position of being the political philosophy that everyone lives by and no one wants to defend.
The question for Silence is not whether another world exists but how such a recognition should affect our lives here.
Ben-Hur is yet another movie made by Christians that fails to do justice to their faith.
Steven Smith’s newest book expresses greater pessimism about the current trajectory of religious freedom in America. But he may not be pessimistic enough.