Bad Infinity
Wake up! critics seem to say; Get Real. Liberalism is dead. All you have to do is look around: the world we live in is one our old categories can’t explain.

James Duesterberg

Letter on Choosing Life
“It seems we have good reasons, then, to welcome a reduction in the birth rate, and so to cheer on voluntary barrenness whatever its motivations. Life is what got us into this trouble to begin with; who needs more of it?”

The Editors

Bullshit Jobs
“Work, work, work, work, work, sings Rihanna through the grocery store sound system. Why do we have to do it? What else do we have to do?”

Jonah Galeota-Sprung

Examined Life

Who Wants to Play the Status Game?

We seem to be less interested in either of these games than in exploring the connection between them—or rather, the philosophical question to which that connection points.

Examined Life

Sorrows of Influence

The sentences are the most vatic and deranged in American…

Examined Life

The Problem with Letters of Recommendation

This is the eleventh in a series of columns on…

Criticism

Mug Shots

In the beginning was the parody. My parents refused to…

Criticism

Problems with Authority

In 1815 Joseph Jacotot, a professor of law and mathematics…

Special Features

Further Materials

Intellectuals in Crisis

Dialogue

Control Groups

Slush Pile

The Life of the Mind

1989

It was, in retrospect, merely the hollow shell of a once-fearsome…

Bad Infinity

“In the United States at this time,” Lionel Trilling wrote…

The Defender

He is the ambassador of a Jewish community rooted in…

A Republic of Discussion

Communication is not for Habermas a simple empirical phenomenon. Rather…