Sam Buntz

Author Archive

  • May 7, 2025
    According to Soren Kierkegaard, there are ages of reflection and ages of passion. Imagine, he says, that someone throws a gold doubloon onto the middle of a frozen pond. It is...
  • April 4, 2025
    Soren Kierkegaard once remarked that we can never be reminded too often that a man existed named Socrates. Agnes Callard’s Open Socrates thus comes as a particularly timely...
  • March 17, 2025
    Tony Tulathimutte’s breakthrough short story “The Feminist,” published in the literary magazine n+1, generated significant online controversy...
  • March 13, 2025
    The cultural critic Katherine Dee has long argued that the true division in our culture will prove not to be Right vs. Left but Tech vs. Anti-Tech. One can see this...
  • January 17, 2025
    You already have an opinion on this man. You may like him, you may dislike him. You may have a long list of gripes about things he has said or things you imagine he has said:...
  • January 3, 2025
    It is a third thing, looking at your phone. It is not looking outward, observing the world. Neither is it looking inward, studying the motions of the soul. It is betwixt and between,...