Self-Censorship and Don Quixote
The language of self-censorship removes the question from the moral realm in which it properly belongs.
Autocracy Rising
Posted on December 12, 2023
in THR Web Features
Image: President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at a rally in Izmir in May 2023; Shutterstock..
Turkey presents an inversion of the usual presumptions about the current global struggle between liberalism and conservatism.
Dostoevsky’s Dangerous Gambit
by
Ryan Kemp
Posted on December 8, 2023
in THR Web Features
Image: “Alyosha and Vanya,” 1971, by Mikhail Rojter (1916–1993); The Gamborg Collection/Bridgeman Images; background: manuscript of The Brothers Karamazov.
Dostoevsky is too Christian for a secular age and too secular for Christendom.
Democracy and Dr. Kissinger
Posted on December 4, 2023
in THR Web Features
Image: Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger on Air Force One in 1974; Everett Collection HIstorical/Alamy.
Kissinger the scholar studied power. Kissinger the statesman acquired power, guarded it, and wielded it.
Unfinished Business
Posted on November 29, 2023
in THR Web Features
Image: Fleeing Paris in 1940; © LAPI/Roger Viollet.
An unfinished fiction is a memento mori.
The Anti-Poetry of John Milton
Posted on November 21, 2023
in THR Web Features
Image: Satan Watching the Caresses of Adam and Eve (detail), 1808, by William Blake (1757–1827); public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Blake_-_Satan_Watching_the_Caresses_of_Adam_and_Eve_-_WGA02226.jpg.
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