Articles of Note

A debate that wasn’t. The Žižek-Peterson showdown featured two incomprehensible Ph.D.s talking past each other. Nathan J. Robinson suffered through it... more »

New Books

"The wholly enlightened earth is radiant with triumphant calamity,” wrote Horkheimer and Adorno. Is enlightenment necessarily accompanied by darker forces?... more »

Essays & Opinions

Influence and its discontents. The condition of being influenced is rarely a happy one. Shakespeare knew this. But will “social-media influencers” listen?... more »