I Told You So
December 23, 2021
Adam McKay’s Aesop-style fable.
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Everybody in Hoodies
On Kanye, the Gap, and the last gasp of American monoculture.
Burdened by Books
December 21, 2021
Teaching the Great Books today means confronting futility and absurdity.
Carnival of Souls
December 20, 2021
On the exhilarating bleakness of Rafael Chirbes’s fiction.
Fresh Hell
December 17, 2021
OOO
Early next year, Republicans will take control of the state legislature in Virginia. Democrats, biding their time during these final few moments in power, have expressed concern that—what with the Supreme Court all but certain to curtail or outright overturn Roe v. Wade at ...
Ill Liberal Arts
When colleges use politics to eliminate political science.
Yesterday’s Men
December 16, 2021
Cold War liberalism, what is it good for?
The Battle over Memory at El Mozote
December 15, 2021
The El Mozote massacre’s survivors have been fighting for justice for forty years.
Southeast Asia’s Forgotten Revolutionaries
December 14, 2021
On transnational futures that never came to pass.
In Sickness and in Wealth
In Ross Douthat’s Deep Trouble, disease is tempered by privilege.
Fresh Hell
December 10, 2021
Extremely Expensive and Totally Pointless
As new Covid-19 cases perilously ticked up this week amid fears of the Omicron variant, the Biden administration touted its new initiative allowing privately insured Americans to—after filling out the necessary paperwork, of ...
Ludwig
Short fiction by Beth Morgan.