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Heidegger’s Downfall

Richard Wolin’s reappraisal of Martin Heidegger offers both original contributions and a synthesis of critical scholarship. The result is a timely work of enduring importance.

Jeffrey Herf

22 Feb 2023 · 18 min read

The Liberal Internationalist

A fine new book argues that the contemporary Left could learn a lot from the life and work of the late polemicist Christopher Hitchens.

Michael J. Totten

20 Feb 2023 · 18 min read

Aristotle (and the Stoics): An Interview with John Sellars

A new book by John Sellars explores the life’s work and extraordinary legacy of the man he has provocatively called “the single most important human being ever to have lived.”

Riley Moore

19 Feb 2023 · 19 min read

Mearsheimer: Rigor or Reaction?

What John J. Mearsheimer gets wrong about Ukraine, international affairs, and much else besides.

Matt Johnson

15 Feb 2023 · 21 min read

Justice in Stockholm

Thirty-four years after the massacre of political prisoners in Iran, the conviction of Hamid Noury in Sweden has been a victory for accountability and for the truth.

Roya Hakakian

7 Feb 2023 · 19 min read

Whatever Happened to Light Verse?

A paean to a disappearing and misunderstood literary tradition.

Kevin Mims

21 Jan 2023 · 20 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

18 Jan 2023 · 70 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

19 Dec 2022 · 19 min read

And Yet it May (Or May Not) Move

If we allow ideological campaigns to discourage controversial research, we will be making a terrible mistake.

Bryan J. Pesta

16 Dec 2022 · 21 min read

All About Dave

The tragic rise of a former comic, liberal, and Angeleno.

Ross Anderson

15 Dec 2022 · 33 min read

The Philadelphia Experiments

How an enterprising doctor, an elite university, and negligent public officials turned a city prison system into the largest human research factory in America.