Jon Baskin

On the Hatred of Literature

Moeko Fujii

Let Them Misunderstand

Toril Moi

Real Characters

Daniel Oppenheimer

Simple Hearts

Daša Drndić

Artur and Isabella

Bud Smith

Safety Meeting

Rachel Fraser

Rape Fantasies

Becca Rothfeld

Normal Novels

Abhrajyoti Chakraborty

Man in the Crowd

Jon Baskin

Friends Like These

Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman

On Choosing Life

Apoorva Tadepalli

Treat Yourself

James Duesterberg

Bad Infinity

Samuel Scheffler

A World Without Children

Agnes Callard

Half a Person

Jonny Thakkar

Quiet Time

Wesley Hill

Unnecessary Gifts

Angie Cruz

Close Likenesses

Timothy Aubry

To Be Continued

The Editors

Being a Kid

Nargol Aran

The Defender

Robert Bird

1989

Charlie Tyson

Idleness

Jonah Galeota-Sprung

Bullshit Jobs

Becca Rothfeld

The Real Lolita

Jon Baskin and Anastasia Berg

On Left Straussianism

Rich Baum

Prophecy and Politics

Laura Baudot

Closer Reading

Danielle A. Jackson

In Her Own Time

John Michael Colón

The Dictatorship of the Present

Robert Pippin and Martin Hägglund

Limited Time

Jacqueline Feldman

Forms of Life

Ethan Smith

Body Counts

Ingrid Norton

Hart Island

Lucy McKeon

Of Love and Blindness

Anastasia Berg and Jon Baskin

Letter on Denialism

Ursula Lindsey

Lessons of Defeat

Jacob Hamburger

What Was New Atheism?

Sasha Archibald

The Exception

Jon Baskin

On the End

Eliza Starbuck Little

Animal Magnetism

Bathsheba Demuth

Past Underfoot

Daegan Miller

Toward a Useful Ignorance

Courtney White

Conservation’s Radical Center

Timothy Crimmins

Stretching the Veil

The Editors

Working with the Earth

Peter C. Baker

This, Too, Was History

Ben Jeffery

The Souls of Yellow Folk

Skomantas Pocius

The Demon in Democracy

Daniel Felsenthal

The Loser

The Editors

Letter on Justice

Kira Thurman

Singing Against the Grain

Sophie Beck

Regarding Joan Miró

Frank Guan

Ante Up

Benjamin Ewing

Socializing Punishment

Jacob Abolafia

Rehabilitative Faith

Reginald Dwayne Betts

Only Once I Thought About Suicide

Kaya Naomi Williams

Go Directly to Jail

Edyson Julio

Performing to Survive

James Forman, Jr. and Mychal Denzel Smith

Another Justice

James Forman, Jr. and Mychal Denzel Smith

Another Justice

John J. Lennon and Phil Christman

Character and Deed

The Editors

Living in Prison

Matthew McKnight

A Lost Thing Finding Itself

Scott Spillman

These Truths

Ana Isabel Keilson

Balanchine Liberalism

Aaron Thier

Denis Johnson’s God

Jon Baskin

Letter on The Point

Nora Caplan-Bricker

Leaving Herland

Gal Katz

Blame the Victim

Philippa Snow

“This Is the Girl”

Ursula Lindsey

Innocence Abroad

Jon Baskin

Tired of Winning

Jesse McCarthy

Black Fire

Ollie Cussen

Enlightenment Idols

Anastasia Berg

I Am Madame Bovary

Jonny Thakkar

On Being an Arsehole

What Something Is

Rachel Wiseman

Switching Off

Ben Jeffery and Mladen Dolar

The Sting of Knowledge

The Editors

Intellectuals in Crisis

Andrew Kay

Wrestling in Paris

Frank Guan

Useful Idiots

John Thomason

Guaranteed Income

Anton Barba-Kay

The Amazon Bookstore

The Editors

The Life of the Mind

The Editors

Letter on Reformation

David J. Unger

American Reams

Becca Rothfeld

Rhapsody in Blue

Aaron Robertson

Close to Nothing

Nick Pinkerton

The Master?

Tish Harrison Warren

True Story

James Chappel

A Serious House

Hans Joas

Above Morality

Elizabeth Bruenig

Charitable Living

Lauren Michele Jackson

Touched by the Sacred

Tim Crane

Can There Be an Atheist Church?

Sarah Ruden

Three Funerals, No Wedding

The Editors

Survey: What is church for?

Philip Gorski

Accounting for Tradition

Philip Gorski

Accounting for Tradition

The Editors

Survey: What is church for?

Maddy Crowell

The Disbeliever

Chenxin Jiang

Baidu Baike

Lindsay Atnip

Anselm Kiefer

Jacob Hamburger

The Closing of the American Mind

The Editors

Letter on Satire

Joshua Cohen

It’s a Circle

Jacob Mikanowski

Climbing Kanchenjunga

James Duesterberg

Final Fantasy

Steven Koteff

Saint Bart

The Editors

Comedy Studies

David Heti and Sheila Heti

Things Don’t Make Sense

Sarah Sherman

Shock and Ow

Michael Knowles

Insert Punchline

Justin E. H. Smith

Punching Down

Lovia Gyarkye

The Audacity of Jokes

Dawn Herrera Helphand

Rallying Sigh

The Editors

Letter on Satire

David Heti and Sheila Heti

Things Don’t Make Sense

The Editors

Comedy Studies

Max Nelson

Debths

Željka Maroševic

The Archers

Min Li Chan

The Google Bus

The Editors

Endgame

The Editors

Letter on Our President

Andrew Kay

Pilgrim at Tinder Creek

Emma Lieber

Heroes and Housewives

Meghan O'Gieblyn

Midwestworld

Michael S. Kochin

A Country Is a Country

José Ángel N.

Negative Growth

Brandon R. Byrd

Tar Heels, Alive

Paul Gleason

Articles of Faith

Lauren Michele Jackson

Blackness + America

Gal Katz

Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

Scott Spillman

Conflict and Consensus

Bea Malsky

Pleasure Won

Justin Evans

The Crisis of Language Project

Eliza Starbuck Little

I Love Dick

Andrew Blevins

The Selfishness of Others

Laurel Berger

Simple Living

The Editors

Democracy in America

The Editors

On Political Fiction

Ben Jeffery

After the Flood

Hannah Rosefield

Who Did It?

Jacob Mikanowski

Camera-phone Lucida

Jesse McCarthy

The Time of the Assassins

Carina del Valle Schorske

By Heart

Frank Guan

Class Dismissed

Max Nelson

The Last of the Iron Men

Danielle Charette

Demagoguery and Poetry

O. T. Marod

Poet at Work

Jake Bittle

Pure Madness

Anthony Madrid

Casebook

Rachel Wong and The Editors

Poetry and Politics in Myanmar

Ollie Cussen

Monocle Men

Kyle Beachy

Multiple Purposes

David Anderson

Graveyards

The Editors

On Purity

Meghan O'Gieblyn

The Insane Idea

Adam Morris

Better Now?

Sophie Beck

Returning the Gaze

Molly Lynch

Bad Spirits

Nakul Krishna

Add Your Own Egg

Melina Abdullah

Linked Fate

Miranda Trimmier

Crowd Love

Mark Rudd

Building the Movement

Barney Frank

Against Demonstrative Politics

Ashley Woodiwiss

After the Carnival

Oded Na'aman

Political Faith

Tim Peters

New Work

Moira Weigel

Kids

Andrew Blevins

Gamelife

Josephine Livingstone

Kalamazoo

The Editors

To Fellow Travelers

Jacob Mikanowski

The Art of Decay

David J. Unger

Fail Again

Tom Stern

Complications of Philosophy

Jon Baskin

Out of Good Reasons

Brandon M. Terry

After Ferguson

Kristofer Lenz

Stendhal Syndrome

Joshua C. A. Cohen

Being Elsewhere

Sophia Nguyen

The Shuttle Era

Ollie Cussen

Away Games

Charles Comey

Against Honeymoons

Adam Plunkett

Doubting T. S. Eliot

Ian P. Beacock

Gay Berlin

Carina del Valle Schorske

Melancholy

Daniel Luban

Forward with Fukuyama

The Editors

The Social Network

Meghan O'Gieblyn

Hell

Brickey LeQuire

Putin and the West

Thomas Chatterton Williams

The Exile’s Game

Ben Jeffery

Foes of God

S. G. Belknap

The Tragic Diet

Dawn Herrera Helphand

Into the Cave

The Editors

The Social Network

Thomas Meaney

Private Lives

Lowry Pressly

Being Known

Rob Horning

The Social Filter

Nathaniel Comfort

The Genetic Self

Veronica Esposito

Distant Reading

Jesse McCarthy

Back in the Day

Steven Poole

Watch Dogs

Tim Peters

Wordless!

The Editors

The New Humanities

Christian Nakarado and Merve Emre

Building Stories

Scott Spillman

The Problem of Slavery

Moira Weigel

Searching for Shanghai

Jonny Thakkar

Mobilizing Mutual Learning

D. Graham Burnett and Mark Dion

What Is Science for?

Adam Alter

Popular Science

Michael D. Gordin

The Soviet Science System

Lily Huang

In Praise of Things

Lorraine Daston

Wonder and the Ends of Inquiry

The Editors

An Interview with Michael Lemonick

J. C. Gabel

Carl Van Vechten’s Photography

Raymond Geuss

The Idea of a Critical Theory

Gordon Arlen

Charlie Trotter

Charles Finch

Norman Rush

Jacob Mikanowski

Noma

The Editors

On Security

Katharine Smyth

Prey

Barrett Swanson

Perilous Aesthetics

Justin Evans

The Lonely Intellectual

Jonny Thakkar

No Such Thing?

Michael J. Kramer

Looking Back

Jeremy Bell

Natural Laws

Cammi Climaco

Marrying Up

Charles Comey

The Love We Use

Timothy Aubry

A Matter of Life and Death

Sam Brody

Joiners and Quitters

Clarisse Thorn

Alternative Arrangements

Alex Worsnip

Not for Anything

Anton Barba-Kay

The World of Coca-Cola

Jon Baskin

Enlightened

Cole Carter

Outrage

Megan Walsh

1994

The Editors

On Food

Emilie Shumway

My Job Search

Jonny Thakkar

Socialism We Can Believe In

Ben Jeffery

Out with the New

Charles Comey

A Plea for Human Food

Alice Crary

Imagination and Advocacy

Fabien Tepper

Cave Trout

Heather Keenleyside

Using Animals

David Egan

Children and Animals

Gary Francione

On Killing Animals

Christine M. Korsgaard

Getting Animals in View

Luc Sante

Further Evidence

Megan Pugh

Rootabaga Country

Jacob Mikanowski

Mad Men

Clarisse Thorn

Burning Man

Jacob Swenson

A Lack of Audacity?

Julie Park

On Tiger Moms

Brickey LeQuire

Not Even Past

Timothy Aubry

Sizing Up Oprah

Jon Baskin

Coming to Terms

Jonathan Leader Maynard

Anti-Politics

William Davies

Freeing the Market

Erik Olin Wright

Toward a Social Socialism

Michael Berube

Libya and the Left

Scott Spillman

American Dreamers

The Editors

An Interview with Bill Ayers

Dora Zhang

Small Talk

A-J Aronstein

9/11 Literature

Tim Peters

Repetition

Jacob Mikanowski

Cloud Gate, Tilted Arc

Jessica Weisberg

Funny Girls

Justin Evans

Problems with Authority

Tom Stern

The Human and the Octopus

Daniel L. Becker

Let Me Ride

John Lingan

Salvation for Civilians

Jon Baskin

Steroids, Baseball, America

Ben Jeffery

Soccer and Schizophrenia

Michael Brearley

Healthy Rivalry

Jonny Thakkar

Hail Mary Time?

Michael Gillespie

March Madness

Drew Hyland

The Sweatiest of the Liberal Arts

Megan Marz

Chicago Heights

Jessica Weisberg

Sarah Palin’s Alaska

Tim Peters

Chris Ware’s ANL #20

John Beer

Chicago’s Political Theater

Dan Silver

Boredom

Scott Spillman

Revolutionary History

Craig Carson

Object Lessons

Veronica Esposito

Ecstatic Variations

Adam M. Bright

Everything Alright?

Joshua Casteel

Call of Duty

The Editors

An Interview with Harvey Mansfield

Yuval Levin

Burke, Paine and the Great Law of Change

Jon Baskin

Conserving the Novel

Jonny Thakkar

Why Conservatives Should Read Marx

James M. Wilson

The Drama of Cultural Conservatism

Jonathan Ullyot

John Hanson’s Statement of Teaching Philosophy

Alex Yablon

Joe Frank

Andrea Haslanger

The White Ribbon

William Wood

Don DeLillo

The Editors

On Health & Care

Etay Zwick

Predatory Habits

Nathan Schneider

The War at Home

Ben Jeffery

Hard Feelings

S. G. Belknap

Love in the Age of the Pickup Artist

Geoffrey O'Brien

The Old Frontier

Jon Baskin

The Perspective of Terrence Malick

Kyle Smith

Abbas Kiarostami’s Transcendental Style

Patryk Chlastawa

Another Article about David Lynch

Tim Robey

David Cronenberg’s Disembodied Cinema

Robert Pippin

No Good Reason

Justin Evans

The (Updated) Dictionary of Received Ideas

Sarah Miller Davenport

John Hughes

Rosalind Earis

Gay Pride in Jerusalem

Maggie Taft

Modern Wing

Jon Baskin

Granta’s Chicago Issue

Raymond Geuss

A World Without Why?

John Beer

An Apology for the Course & Outcome of Certain Events

Martha Nussbaum

Inheriting Socrates

Jonny Thakkar

Examined Life

Slavoj Zizek

Two Modes of Ideological Mystification

Mark Lilla

The Limits of Liberalism

Jonny Thakkar

The Withering of Narcissus

Charles Comey

The Passion of the Cow

Adam M. Bright

Here, Now

Jon Baskin

Death Is Not the End

Jonny Thakkar

Obama: Philosopher-King?

Richard Polt

Arendt and the Space of Action

Mark Hopwood

Self-Conscious Publics

Sam Brody

Idealism in Obama’s America

John Beer

Gatz

Marie Chesaniuk

The Female Slacker

Tom Stern

The Creation Museum