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America Is Faustian
Gregory Laski interviews Ed Simon about “Devil’s Contract: The History of the Faustian Bargain.”
Philosophy & Religion
"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think." — Lorraine Hansberry
Russia’s Media-Ideological Complex
Michael David-Fox reviews Mikhail Suslov’s “Putinism—Post-Soviet Russian Regime Ideology.”
Refuge as a Way of Life
Michael McGhee reviews “Pessimism, Quietism and Nature as Refuge” by David E. Cooper.
Antisemitism Studies and the War Against the Imagination
Safa Khatib considers theories of Judaism, antisemitism, Zionism, and anti-Zionism in her review of “Critical Theories of Anti-Semitism” by Jonathan Judaken.
Commendable Snitches
Gordon Marino considers “The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No” by Carl Elliott.
Sacralizing Nature: On Marcelo Gleiser’s “The Dawn of a Mindful Universe”
Paolo Musso believes the work of an open-minded, bighearted scientist like Marcelo Gleiser is of paramount importance to our future.
Amour and Armour: A Conversation with Lyndsey Stonebridge
Samantha Rose Hill interviews Lyndsey Stonebridge about her new book “We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love and Disobedience.”
Quiet Please: On Anna Katharina Schaffner’s “Exhausted” and Byung-Chul Han’s “Vita Contemplativa”
Josh Cohen reviews Anna Katharina Schaffner’s “Exhausted: An A–Z for the Weary” and Byung-Chul Han’s “Vita Contemplativa: In Praise of Inactivity.”
Holding Hands with the Archive: A Conversation with Julian Carter
Selby Wynn Schwartz speaks with Julian Carter about his new book “Dances of Time and Tenderness,” self-described as “not a memoir, but a collective memory.”
Sustained, Energetic Engagement with the Object: On Becca Rothfeld’s “All Things Are Too Small”
Kenneth Dillon reviews Becca Rothfeld’s “All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess.”
Pull the Red Thread: On Alice Rohrwacher’s “La chimera”
Greta Rainbow reviews Alice Rohrwacher’s film “La chimera.”
What Scientists Can’t See: On Adam Frank, Marcelo Gleiser, and Evan Thompson’s “The Blind Spot”
Robert P. Crease reviews Adam Frank, Marcelo Gleiser, and Evan Thompson’s “The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience.”
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