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When All Is Cultural, Nothing Is Natural March 27, 2024
Thinkers from nearly every intellectual tradition agree that we live in an age when ideology dominates public life. Who or what we can accurately label as ideological is as essentially contested as the rest of politics. Most of us certainly don’t vie...
A Clear-Eyed Look at the Early Obama Years March 27, 2024
Like so many others, I first watched him speak on the night of the 2004 Democratic convention, the year John Kerry became the nominee. He was still a state senator then, his face unlined, his head full of dark-brown hair. He humbly told the audience ...
The Battle for Hope March 26, 2024
Michel Houellebecq’s infamous novel Submission features Francois, a middle-aged literary scholar who functions as a postmodern rendering of Durtal, the main character of J.K. Huysmans’s turn-of-the-century decadent novels. Francois’s academic and per...
A Return to Ideological Competition March 20, 2024
President Biden’s 2024 State of the Union speech addressed one of the great flashpoints of our times regarding Russia and its neighbors. But the speech fell short in articulating the war of ideas that lie at the heart of Russia’s aggression, China’s...
