The Gray Zone The Gray Zone
Does John Gray counsel anything more than avoidance of the ideological excesses he scorns?
Dec 4, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Isaac Chotiner
Without Respite Without Respite
Seeing not a person but a thing was the crime of crimes for Primo Levi.
Nov 25, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Vivian Gornick
Hannah and Her Admirers Hannah and Her Admirers
Margarethe von Trotta’s biopic of Hannah Arendt is a film about ideas that remains intellectually detached from them.
Nov 19, 2013 / Books & the Arts / David Rieff
Get Happy!! Get Happy!!
For Margaret Thatcher as for today’s happiness industry, there is no such thing as society.
Nov 6, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Jackson Lears
Dignity’s Due Dignity’s Due
Why are philosophers invoking the notion of human dignity to revitalize theories of political ethics?
Oct 16, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Samuel Moyn
Citizen Marx Citizen Marx
By refusing to treat Marx as our contemporary, Jonathan Sperber has brought him back to life.
Oct 8, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Sam Stark
Jester and Priest: On Leszek Kolakowski Jester and Priest: On Leszek Kolakowski
How the great Polish philosopher went from being an anticlerical scourge to an apostle of John Paul II.
Sep 4, 2013 / Books & the Arts / John Connelly
Fichte’s Way Fichte’s Way
Johann Gottlieb Fichte undertook a pure search for truth. He also distrusted international markets. Does that make him an ancestor to anti-globalization activists?
Aug 13, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Michael Rosen
‘Atlantic Rim’: Chomsky v. Zizek ‘Atlantic Rim’: Chomsky v. Zizek
An online dustup between two pop star penseurs shows them staggering through afterlives.
Aug 13, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Clover
Thoreau’s Radicalism and the Fight Against the Fossil-Fuel Industry Thoreau’s Radicalism and the Fight Against the Fossil-Fuel Industry
What would it mean if we were to walk in his footsteps?
May 8, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Wen Stephenson