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The Uses of Artistic Extravagance

by Alan Jacobs
Posted on October 10, 2022 in THR Web Features
Image: Jean-Luc Godard and some of his film posters.

Jean-Luc Godard, like Nietzsche and Wittgenstein and Heidegger, is worth paying attention to even when we think his work is bad

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The Model Minority Might Be Too Good at the Game

by Johann N. Neem
Posted on October 6, 2022 in THR Web Features
Image: THR Illustration: Anthony Chiado/Unsplash; Shutterstock, Inc.

Warikoo might have explored the ways in which Asian cultural repertoires matched up with the neoliberal transformation of our schools and colleges.

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Saving Face

by Leann Davis Alspaugh
Posted on September 29, 2022 in THR Web Features
Image: THR illustration, Harold Gillies at center.

The face we present to the world is the primary signifier we possess.

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Why American Conservatives Get Viktor Orbán So Wrong

by Adam Kovach
Posted on September 14, 2022 in THR Web Features
Image: Conservative Political Action Conference meeting in Dallas, Texas, August 4, 2022. MTI/Vivien Cher Benko.

Viktor Orbán has become a canvas for the projection of hopes and fears about the future of democracy in the West.

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In Praise of Bewilderment

by Alan Levinovitz
Posted on August 24, 2022 in THR Web Features
Image: “States of Mind III; Those Who Stay” by Umberto Boccioni, 1911 [via Wikimedia Commons].

You can trade false simplicity for complicated truth.

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Reaching the Adjacent

by Alan Jacobs
Posted on August 17, 2022 in THR Web Features
Image: Shutterstock, Inc.

Are we willing to undertake the long, slow work of persuasion in a time of the politics of personal destruction?

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