Articles of Note

The history of boredom turns out to be anything but. What Seneca described as a kind of nausea is necessary, useful, even interesting... more »

New Books

What does our vocabulary say about the state of criticism? Words like ?interesting? and ?cute? have given rise to a minor aesthetics for middling art... more »

Essays & Opinions

Omniscient, omnipotent, perhaps indifferent. Is God happy? Not in any way that we can understand. Leszek Kolakowski explains... more »