Articles of Note

Peter Singer, on the ethics of farming animals: “What’s the basis for assuming their suffering is less?”... more »


New Books

The eminent historian Peter Brown has written a 700 page memoir. “To today’s academic precariat, his habits might seem as remote as late antiquity itself”... more »


Essays & Opinions

“One writes fables in periods of oppression,” noted Italo Calvino in 1943. But when fascism passed, he kept on writing them... more »