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Come to Harm November 12, 2024
Politics—and electoral politics most flagrantly—is the projection of the illusion of competence onto the illusion of understanding. Its field of concern is what are called “issues,” a large part of which comprises the aspects of a society it refuses ...
The Truth Will Set Joel Embiid Free November 05, 2024
Forget, for a moment, the Shove heard (but not seen) ’round the internet. Forget the inciting column that drove Joel Embiid to put his hands on a Philadelphia journalist. Set aside, for now, how you feel about the appropriateness of the columnist’s w...
Europe’s Music Meritocracy November 04, 2024
A visit earlier this year to two Baroque masterpieces of the Hapsburg Empire—Prague and Vienna—revealed a classical music ecosystem not usually glimpsed from the United States. From the perspective of New York, Philadelphia, or Chicago, classical mus...
Laboratory of the World August 15, 2024
Step out of the art deco cathedral that is Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station and you see a neighborhood-wide construction site. Stand beneath the station’s West Portico, and its columns frame images of cranes, steel beams, and glass towers, amid a p...
