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Remembering Alasdair MacIntyre

by Charles Mathewes
Posted on May 23, 2025 in THR Web Features
Image: THR illustration; Alasdair MacIntyre (1929–2025) by Sean O’Connor, Shutterstock background.

The most creative, innovative, and profound MacIntyre was the one who thought about moral rationality.

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ChatGPT Is a Gimmick

by Jonathan Malesic
Posted on May 21, 2025 in THR Web Features
Image: Darko 1981, Shutterstock.

AI offers a tempting illusion to students—and evidently to some teachers.

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The Devils’ Citadel

by Alan Jacobs
Posted on May 15, 2025 in THR Web Features
Image: THR illustration/steam hammer, 1867, Paris, Shutterstock.

As people reflect on the chasm that separates their experience from that of their grandparents, everyone is confused.

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Prehistory’s Original Sin

by Connor Grubaugh
Posted on May 7, 2025 in THR Web Features
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We need more than genealogies to know who we are, and who we ought to become.

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Borrowed Crowns

by Andrew Hui
Posted on April 30, 2025 in THR Web Features
Image: THR illustration: Shutterstock/US Army photo/Etsy.

Monarchy and its symbols seem to retain an allure that is hard to resist—even if in jest.

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Faulkner and Plath Go to a Play

by Carl Rollyson
Posted on April 16, 2025 in THR Web Features
Image: THR illustration/Shutterstock.

The stage set becomes, in effect, a metaphor for the way individuality has been crushed in the modern world.

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