Boring Art, Impotent Politics
Mixing aesthetics and activism does a disservice to both.
Julia Friedman
· 11 min read
ChatGPT and the Future of the Professions
Professionals must learn to work with the machines or they will be replaced by them.
Sean Welsh
· 12 min read
The Crypto Token Economy Is Second-Order Fraud
The entire industry is artifice built atop artifice.
Sohale Mortazavi
· 17 min read
Whatever Happened to Light Verse?
A paean to a disappearing and misunderstood literary tradition.
Kevin Mims
· 21 min read
A Bore of a Blockbuster
Next time, one hopes, James Cameron will focus as much on the story he tells as the means he uses to tell it.
Allan Stratton
· 7 min read
Scenes from a Marriage
In 2020, a British High Court judge ruled that actor Johnny Depp was probably a “wife beater.” Earlier this year, an American jury disagreed. Who got it right?
Charlotte Allen
· 70 min read
Hope, Trust, and Religious Faith
In the 1990s, religious Americans embraced science’s re-definition of spirituality. They would be unwise to repeat this mistake.
Ronald W. Dworkin
· 11 min read
Experiences with Suicide
Coping with a uniquely painful kind of bereavement.
Art Kusserow
· 9 min read
The Inner Life of Transcendent Genius
In ‘The Philosophy of Modern Song,’ Dylan contemplates himself and the art form of which he is the acknowledged master.
Benjamin Kerstein
· 13 min read
A Report From the Stanford Academic Freedom Conference
The urgency of our mission was reflected in the list of attendees—many of whom had been laid off, mobbed, or ostracized because of their research.
Elizabeth Weiss
· 14 min read
More Than Just a Social Construct
The fiction that race has no biological basis is more likely to exacerbate health disparities than narrow them.
Robert J. Morris
· 9 min read
Stuck in the Middle (of Academia)
Academia is a mess, but there is still hope.
Christopher J. Ferguson
· 12 min read
In Memoriam
A tribute to five pop fiction writers we lost in 2022.
Kevin Mims
· 12 min read
Paranoid Pop
A look back at the remarkable life and career of one of the 20th Century’s most original artists.
David Cohen
· 20 min read
The Radicalization of the Film Canon
Sight and Sound’s 2022 poll is a sign of the times.
Adrian Nguyen
· 13 min read