A Distant View
Julia Friedman
Svetlana Alpers’s value judgments show her colors as a critic, although formally her métier in the late 1970s was still that of the art historian.
A Question of Purpose
Gary Saul Morson
One must translate the work, not the words on the page. They are not the same.
Democracy by the Book
Antón Barba-Kay
Part of the political bizarreness of our time comes from the fact that the possibility of data’s neutrality is rarely disputed as such.
Current Issue
Of Continuing Interest
A selection of articles from the archives
No Country for Old Age
Joseph E. Davis
The normative appeal of the new gerontology to individual autonomy and responsibility makes it even clearer that “failure” is precisely what is at stake.
I Sing the Electric Body
Brian Patrick Eha
To begin a sentence is to launch into the void and syntax plays a large role in how you will land.
Principled to a Fault
Becca Rothfeld
On the face of it, Simone Weil is a remarkably poor candidate for domestication.
Cannabis as a Cultural Question
James Mumford
How are we ethically to evaluate the practice of getting stoned?