Bach at the Burger King
When the music of Vivaldi and Mozart are used to repel the homeless from sidewalks and Burger Kings, does it still glorify the dignity of humanity?...
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A Messiah-cum-Surrogate-Dad for Gormless Dimwits: On Jordan B. Peterson’s “12 Rules for Life”
Houman Barekat questions “12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos” by Jordan B. Peterson....
Delete Your Account Now: A Conversation with Jaron Lanier
Harper Simon asks Jaron Lanier about his latest book, “Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now.”...
The Useless French Language and Why We Learn It
Colin Marshall examines English speakers’ relationship to the French language, which is the subject of a growing number of books....
Blighted by Empire: What the British Did to India
Omer Aziz indicts the Western amnesia around colonialism....
Whose University Is It Anyway?
Can higher education be saved from the all-administrative university?...
Quasi Duo Fantasias: A Straussian Reading of “Black Panther”
Slavoj Žižek offers a Straussian reading of “Black Panther.”...
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DC State of Mind
Money Shots
Art and Enchantment in Haruki Murakami’s “Killing Commendatore”
It Just Made Perfect Sense: Dorothy, a Publishing Project
The Intimate Witness: Art and the Disappeared of History
Thinking Itself Is Dangerous
Into Freedom
Democracy: The Best of the Worst? A Conversation with Paul Cartledge
The President-in-Waiting
This Broken World: On “The Banner Saga”
The Original Punk Rock PI: On Rex Weiner’s Ford Fairlane
Meaning to Chaos
The Devils of Our Better Nature: On Dennis Cooper and His New Film
Higher Laughter: On Jim Holt
Eugenic Thinking Today
Second Acts: A Second Look at Second Books of Poetry: Joan Murray and Christopher Gilbert
Grabbing the Narrative for Yourself: An Interview with Jamie Bernstein
Himmler’s Antiquity
California Sons: Miriam Pawel’s “The Browns of California”
Revising Lovecraft: The Mutant Mythos
