Category Archives: Articles of Note

Our future is measured by the books we intend to read. Kierkegaard understood the anxiety. As more becomes possible, he said, less becomes actual… more»

“Let’s be clear.” It’s a promise for our time, indicating that what follows will be neither clear nor even trustworthy…more»

Art and violence. Theater and film have always delighted in depictions of suffering. But how much is too much?…more»

Ronald Dworkin, liberal philosopher, proponent of a rights-based theory of law, is dead at 81…  NY Times…  Guardian… WSJ…  Noah Feldman…  Randy Barnett… Financial Times… Independent… Telegraph… Cass Sunstein… Charles Fried… Eric Posner… spiked…

Napoleon Chagnon, the most maligned anthropologist of his generation. He’s arrogant and impolitic – but a genocidaire?… more»

The Bell Jar was published in England on January 14, 1963. Sylvia Plath killed herself 28 days later. A good career move, Anne Sexton observed… more»

Truman Capote described In Cold Blood as “immaculately factual,” which was in fact not true. He never let reality interfere with a good story… more»

Auden was sloppy but open to editing. Trilling was more difficult but open to suggestions. As for Barzun, no one dared move a comma… more»

The king and the parking lot. He was small in stature, weak in strength, with a curved spine and a face “little and fierce.” The myth of Richard III meets reality…more»

Coffee, wine, God, philosophy, and the audacity of the pope. An unearthed conversation with Christopher Hitchens… more… more… more