After Babel Fish
Richard Hughes Gibson
More communication is not necessarily better communication.
Digesting Dante
Richard Hughes Gibson
Dante invented not only the epic in his vernacular but also a new reading public for it.
The Word Made Lifeless
Talbot Brewer
The development of AI reads less like a familiar chapter from the history of consumer capitalism and more like the storyboard of a Bond film in which we’ve all been cast as extras.
Untranslated
Olga Litvak
The Jewish suspicion of confession is a kind of epistemological modesty, an unwillingness to examine other minds too closely.
Current Issue
Of Continuing Interest
A selection of articles from the archives
California Road Trip
Matthew B. Crawford
A trip down the California coast has an aspect of memory and return to it.
Preserving the Wilderness Idea
Brian Treanor
Calling the idea of wilderness into question makes as much sense as asking whether the United States is a democracy.
The Return of the King
Philip S. Gorski
We see the peculiar features of neoauthoritarianism as quite real modern-day reincarnations of the ancient tradition of divine kingship.
The New Ruling Class
Helen Andrews
Meritocracy began by destroying an aristocracy; it has ended in creating a new one.