Current Issue
Letter
Jesse McCarthy and Jon Baskin
Essays
Asad Haider
S. G. Belknap
Symposium: What is sex for?
Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist.
Dasha Filippova
Yin Q
Erin Thompson
Dialogue
Eyal Peretz and Anastasia Berg
Survey
The Editors
Literature
Alejandro Varela
John Michael Colón
Reviews
Apoorva Tadepalli
John Palattella
Summer 2020
Jonny Thakkar
Aaron Robertson
Cathy Gere
Corina Stan
Robert Pippin
Symposium: What are nation-states for?
Thomas Meaney
Rosemarie Ho
Patrick Deneen
Anatol Lieven
Riham Alkousaa
George Kateb and Jon Baskin
Correspondence
C. X.
Rachel Fraser
Ursula Lindsey
Matthew Noah Smith
Philippa Snow
Winter 2020
Jon Baskin
Moeko Fujii
Toril Moi
Daniel Oppenheimer
Daša Drndić
Bud Smith
Becca Rothfeld
Abhrajyoti Chakraborty
Fall 2019
Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman
James Duesterberg
Symposium: What are children for?
Samuel Scheffler
Agnes Callard
Wesley Hill
Angie Cruz
Timothy Aubry
Nargol Aran
Robert Bird
Charlie Tyson
Jonah Galeota-Sprung
Summer 2019
Socialism in Our Time
Jon Baskin and Anastasia Berg
Rich Baum
Laura Baudot
Danielle A. Jackson
Remarks
Robert Pippin and Martin Hägglund
Jacqueline Feldman
Ethan Smith
Ingrid Norton
Lucy McKeon
Winter 2019
What is the earth for?
Anastasia Berg and Jon Baskin
Jacob Hamburger
Sasha Archibald
Symposium: What is the earth for?
Eliza Starbuck Little
Bathsheba Demuth
Daegan Miller
Courtney White
Timothy Crimmins
Peter C. Baker
Ben Jeffery
Skomantas Pocius
Daniel Felsenthal
Fall 2018
What is prison for?
Kira Thurman
Sophie Beck
Frank Guan
Symposium: What is prison for?
Benjamin Ewing
Jacob Abolafia
Reginald Dwayne Betts
Kaya Naomi Williams
Edyson Julio
James Forman, Jr. and Mychal Denzel Smith
John J. Lennon and Phil Christman
Matthew McKnight
Scott Spillman
Ana Isabel Keilson
Aaron Thier
Spring 2018
What are intellectuals for?
Nora Caplan-Bricker
Gal Katz
Symposium: What are intellectuals for?
Jesse McCarthy
Ollie Cussen
Anastasia Berg
Robert L. Kehoe III
Rachel Wiseman
Ben Jeffery and Mladen Dolar
Further Materials
Andrew Kay
John Thomason
Anton Barba-Kay
Slush Pile
Winter 2018
What is church for?
David J. Unger
Nick Pinkerton
Symposium: What is church for?
Tish Harrison Warren
James Chappel
Hans Joas
Elizabeth Bruenig
Lauren Michele Jackson
Tim Crane
Sarah Ruden
Philip Gorski and Robert L. Kehoe III
Maddy Crowell
Chenxin Jiang
Lindsay Atnip
Summer 2017
What is comedy for?
Joshua Cohen
Jacob Mikanowski
Symposium: What is comedy for?
Steven Koteff
David Heti and Sheila Heti
Sarah Sherman
Michael Knowles
Justin E. H. Smith
Lovia Gyarkye
Dawn Herrera Helphand
Max Nelson
Željka Maroševic
Min Li Chan
Winter 2017
What is America for?
Emma Lieber
Symposium: What is America for?
Meghan O'Gieblyn
Michael S. Kochin
José Ángel N.
Brandon R. Byrd
Paul Gleason
Bea Malsky
Dictionary
Justin Evans
Andrew Blevins
Laurel Berger
Summer 2016
What is poetry for?
Hannah Rosefield
Symposium: What is poetry for?
Carina del Valle Schorske
Danielle Charette
O. T. Marod
Jake Bittle
Anthony Madrid
Rachel Wong and The Editors
Kyle Beachy
David Anderson
Winter 2016
What is protest for?
Adam Morris
Molly Lynch
Nakul Krishna
Symposium: What is protest for?
Melina Abdullah
Miranda Trimmier
Mark Rudd
Barney Frank
Ashley Woodiwiss
Oded Na'aman
Tim Peters
Moira Weigel
Jo Livingstone
Summer 2015
What is travel for?
Tom Stern
Brandon M. Terry
Symposium: What is travel for?
Kristofer Lenz
Joshua C. A. Cohen
Sophia Nguyen
Charles Comey
Adam Plunkett
Ian P. Beacock
Daniel Luban
Winter 2015
What is privacy for?
Brickey LeQuire
Thomas Chatterton Williams
Symposium: What is privacy for?
Lowry Pressly
Rob Horning
Nathaniel Comfort
Veronica Esposito
Steven Poole
Summer 2014
What is science for?
Christian Nakarado and Merve Emre
Symposium: What is science for?
D. Graham Burnett and Mark Dion
Adam Alter
Michael D. Gordin
Lily Huang
Lorraine Daston
J. C. Gabel
Raymond Geuss
Gordon Arlen
Charles Finch
Fall 2013
What is marriage for?
Katharine Smyth
Barrett Swanson
Michael J. Kramer
Symposium: What is marriage for?
Jeremy Bell
Cammi Climaco
Sam Brody
Clarisse Thorn
Alex Worsnip
Cole Carter
Megan Walsh
Winter 2013
What are animals for?
Emilie Shumway
Symposium: What are animals for?
Alice Crary
Fabien Tepper
Heather Keenleyside
David Egan
Gary Francione
Christine M. Korsgaard
Luc Sante
Megan Pugh
Spring 2012
What is the left for?
Jacob Swenson
Julie Park
Symposium: What is the left for?
Jonathan Leader Maynard
William Davies
Erik Olin Wright
Michael Berube
Dora Zhang
A-J Aronstein
Jessica Weisberg
Spring 2011
What are sports for?
Daniel L. Becker
John Lingan
Symposium: What is sport for?
Michael Brearley
Michael Gillespie
Drew Hyland
Megan Marz
John Beer
Fall 2010
What is conservatism for?
Dan Silver
Craig Carson
Adam M. Bright
Joshua Casteel
Symposium: What is conservatism for?
Yuval Levin
James M. Wilson
Jonathan Ullyot
Alex Yablon
Andrea Haslanger
William Wood
Winter 2010
What is film for?
Etay Zwick
Nathan Schneider
Symposium: What is film for?
Geoffrey O'Brien
Kyle Smith
Patryk Chlastawa
Tim Robey
Sarah Miller Davenport
Rosalind Earis
Maggie Taft
Martha Nussbaum
Spring 2009
What is politics for?
Slavoj Zizek
Mark Lilla
Symposium: What is politics for?
Richard Polt
Mark Hopwood
Marie Chesaniuk