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Not only was Cruse dubious about the plausibility of eradicating prejudice from the souls of whites, but he believed that such a project—inevitably focused on…

Whatever one thinks about the moral status of the existing global order, it is hard to imagine circumstances in which philosophical critique would make a…

The hatred of literature, though it remains almost unheard of among the general reading public, has become the default mode in the upper reaches of…

A few years ago I spoke with Alan Jacobs about his book, The Year of Our Lord, 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis. A…

In the most basic sense, when we first confront powerful images we say that we are out of words, right? All of a sudden we…

Patriotism is a moral mistake and an intellectual mistake, a mistake twice over. We are all subject to it.

INTRODUCTION The subtitle of Martin Hägglund’s new book, This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom, indicates its ambition. In the first half of This Life,…

WHEN THE EDITORS of this magazine began to talk about how to address this summer’s uprisings—hundreds of thousands taking to the streets in hundreds of American cities…

What do you think is the best part of being a kid?

This fall and winter we invited people who work with the land—farmers, ranchers, foresters, ecologists and others—to tell us what they think the earth is…

Intellectual Ex-Radicals and World Reaction: The Crisis of the Disillusioned Fellow-Travelers of Bolshevism Is Not the Same as a “Crisis of Marxism” (Trotsky 1939) The Intellectual:…

The following is a collection of statements published in the New York Times about Robert S. Mueller, from 2001 to today.

The following are actual titles of papers published in peer-reviewed academic journals.

alt right: i) right-wing racists who use leftist rhetoric. ii) establishment.

Classics, the: force of oppression. Know enough to despise ~: “Plato was an authoritarian.” “Aristotle condoned slavery.”

Hong Kong is again in the news with Beijing seeking to pass anti-dissent national security laws; crucially, it plans to do so via the National…

Much of what Dave taught me had to do with the sympathy and intelligence he applied to varieties of experience that that were alien to…

He is the ambassador of a Jewish community rooted in an old Tehran that no longer exists.

Integrated love didn’t have to bear the weight of such a grim outlook. He’d try, and I’d try, and together we might create something immersive,…

Things don’t go quite as we or the characters expect. And Varela doesn’t ever give us the comfort of escaping the fundamental ambiguity at the…

This piece is part of the Ferrante Project: 32 works by women writers and artists of color experimenting with freedom, anti-fame and anonymity. 1. It…

By some indicators we are entering a new Dark Age: anti-intellectual fervor is raging, suspicion of experts is at an all-time high and appeals to…

Finally, in Samuel Beckett, we have our poet-laureate of climate change.

Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America arrives at an auspicious time. The French sociologist came initially to America to prepare a report on criminal justice,…

This is the third column in the third round of Reading Room, a collective column on reading and life. In each round, the contributors respond to a prompt…

This is the second column in the third round of Reading Room, a collective column on reading and life. In each round, the contributors respond to…

This is the first column in the third round of Reading Room, a collective column on reading and life. In each round, the contributors respond…

Dear Aristotle...