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The RightDecember 15, 2020
Theodor Adorno and the Crises of Liberalism
At the center of Adorno’s work was a reminder that fascist movements are not exceptional to liberal democracy but signs of its failure.
Peter E. Gordon
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ReligionSeptember 23, 2019
Martin Hägglund’s Case for Socialism
If we knew there were no afterlife, would we make this life better?
Peter E. Gordon
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January 10, 2019
Eyewitness to the German Revolution
Victor Klemperer’s dispatches from interwar Germany.
Peter E. Gordon
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HistoryFebruary 15, 2017
Saul Friedländer’s Many Lives
What is the relationship between the Holocaust’s history and its memory?
Peter E. Gordon
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BiographySeptember 14, 2016
A Lion in Winter
Jürgen Habermas remains an indispensable guide to the unfinished project of democratic consciousness and enlightenment.
Peter E. Gordon
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PhilosophyJune 9, 2016
The Odd Couple
Through their editorial work on the writings of Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno and Gershom Scholem forged an unlikely friendship.
Peter E. Gordon
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Cultural Criticism and AnalysisDecember 3, 2015
An Opera of Permanent Catastrophe, and of Hope
A new production of Alban Berg’s Lulu reveals the explosive powers still manifest in modern art.
Peter E. Gordon