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Worrying about one's own narcissism has a whiff of paradox. If we are suffering from self-obsession, should we really feed the disease by... Read More
Over the last 30 years, we have witnessed the most significant movement out of poverty in human history. If this trend continues, we will see... Read More
What is the virtue we most urgently need more of in America today? A few obvious answers come to mind: honesty, to counteract the... Read More
Jamelle Bouie, the chief political correspondent for Slate, recently penned an essay suggesting that the Enlightenment was racist... Read More
Narrative archetypes have been with us since the dawn of storytelling, but the relative value of a particular archetype to society can change... Read More
RealClearBooks: Let's start with your book title. I always thought the advent of robots would mean we wouldn't have to work anymore.Mark P.... Read More
They represent a growing force in the conservative intellectual movement. You could even say they constitute a new literary genre. A... Read More
Back in the 1970s, Raymond Geuss was a young colleague of Richard Rorty in the mighty philosophy department at Princeton. In some ways they... Read More
Many Americans think of the South only in terms of two events: the Civil War and the civil-rights movement. This has also been buttressed,... Read More
We know a noun has pervaded our sensibilities when we derive a verb from it. “Network” appears in 16th century English, and was... Read More
This week's story, “The Luck of Kokura,” is about a hedge-fund trader who has left his wife and child—and a financial... Read More
In a recent episode of the TV drama Billions, the antihero Bobby Axelrod is talking to a rival hedge fund manager who is going to have... Read More
Greenwich, July 1944. The sirens sounded once more, and the drum roll of the distant barrages resumed, getting louder as the firing crept... Read More
Maybe he should have thought twice before naming his magazine Rolling Stone... Read More
Foster Huntington recounts how he made his fantasy a reality and unknowingly launched a lifestyle movement in the process... Read More
A book by Jonathan Israel is, from the conclusion, about the United States and its occasional anti-Enlightenment mood swings... Read More
“I am glad you've read the Heart of D. tho' of course it's an awful fudge,” Joseph Conrad wrote to Roger Casement in late 1903. Casement, an Irish diplomat working for the British Foreign Office, had just returned to London from Belgium's African colony, the Congo Free State, and was about to submit a report to Parliament detailing the existence of a vast system of slavery used to extract ivor Read More
