In January of this year the Coalition of the Radical Left, known by its acronym Syriza, became the largest party in the Greek parliament, and […]
And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale. […]
There’s a little time left before the show is supposed to start, and paying audience members are gathered outside the black-box theater behind the furniture […]
I teach an undergraduate class on Nietzsche, a philosopher who has a reputation for captivating young minds. After one class, a student came to see […]
Elena Ferrante, a pseudonymous Italian author about whom little is known personally, has in the past two years become a household name in American literary […]
As night fell over Missouri on November 24, 2014, the streets of Ferguson erupted in protest and then riot. The occasion was the announcement that Darren Wilson, a white officer in the Ferguson police department ...
…for beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we can just barely endure, and we stand in awe of it as it coolly […]
In 1892, a French psychologist named Jules de Gaultier published a short book entitled Le bovarysme, la psychologie dans l’oeuvre de Flaubert. In 1902, he […]
Space used to signify pure tomorrow, an infinite frontier unrolling in all directions. Now, for those few who still nurse them, the arc of those […]
In the late autumn of 2012, in a cold ground-floor room on the South Side of Chicago, I watched Queens Park Rangers record the worst […]
My wife is seated in a beach chair. She peers over her book and sees me approaching some seals hauled up on the sand. There […]
I was nineteen. (I doubt that this sort of thing happens to people much older than that.) I was a sophomore in college, and had […]
One evening in October 1905, when most Berliners were bundled away at home, Kurt Hiller wandered alone through the Tiergarten. Well, not quite alone. Walking […]
Melancholy is a word that has fallen out of favor for describing the condition we now call depression. The fact that our language has changed, […]
Fukuyama may still be proven wrong—after all, for his argument to be correct, it has to be correct forever, and the future lasts a long time. But on the most basic level, we still inhabit the ideological landscape that Fukuyama described a quarter century ago. The end of history hasn’t ended, yet.
