Equality
Story Stream
The Middle Way of American Equality November 26, 2024
The world we inhabit is obsessed with inequality. The proponents of doctrinaire egalitarianism, those who speak incessantly of “equity” or “social justice,” simply assume that all ‘disparities,’ racial or otherwise, are of themselves evidence of oppr...
Have We Never Been Woke? November 25, 2024
We Have Never Been Woke is a work of, by, and for the American professional class. According to its author, Musa al-Gharbi, this is a social class defined by its manipulations of symbols and its distinctive symbolic culture. During the Great Awokenin...
Miley Cyrus Wants to Make You Vibrate November 22, 2024
Miley Cyrus is sitting in front of the stone-walled fireplace in her house in Los Angeles, holding up two coffee-table books. One is 2017’s Doll Parts by Amanda Lepore, the transgender, transgressive, glamour-all-the-time nightlife icon. The other is...
Nietzsche’s Eternal Return in America November 22, 2024
One day in the early 2000s, a goth teenager by the name of Sohrab Ahmari was perusing the shelves of a Salt Lake City bookstore when his gaze landed upon Friedrich Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra. For a misfit atheist adolescent looking for meanin...
America Will Always Be Hooked on Drugs November 21, 2024
America is the greatest democracy in the world: a place where an incoherent system of contradictory beliefs has produced an equally incoherent politics. In the irrational ferment of what it may be best to call simply the thing that happened — the con...
The Many Forms of Rachel Cusk November 04, 2024
To judge by the critical response, Rachel Cusk’s new novel has left readers feeling betrayed. The nature of the betrayal depended upon what aspect of her work the critic once esteemed. For Dwight Garner of the New York Times, reviewing Parade meant r...
The Untethering November 04, 2024
One question I’ve wrestled with, as a writer, is how another Trump presidency would subsume the arts. As I’ve offered already, I do not know who will win the presidential election and speculation like this shouldn’t be taken as an assertion that Dona...
