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Oct 29, 2025
What does a screen do?
We stare into screens all the time. But we take their form for granted. Why this plane? This surface? Why must the 2D continually slice the 3D world we...
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Oct 2, 2025
“Now what’s going to happen to us without barbarians?
Those people were a kind of solution.”
—C.P. Cavafy
Hitting the road. Lighting out for the...
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Sep 26, 2025
It often feels like digital life moves too fast for ten fingers to capture it on a keyboard. Only the thumbs, busily pounding at their smartphone, can keep pace. Online life is...
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May 14, 2025
Let’s consider a writer who almost everyone approaches politically: Rudyard Kipling. This is understandable because Kipling often writes quite politically. (The author of a...
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May 7, 2025
According to Soren Kierkegaard, there are ages of reflection and ages of passion. Imagine, he says, that someone throws a gold doubloon onto the middle of a frozen pond. It is...
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Apr 4, 2025
Soren Kierkegaard once remarked that we can never be reminded too often that a man existed named Socrates. Agnes Callard’s Open Socrates thus comes as a particularly timely...
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Mar 17, 2025
Tony Tulathimutte’s breakthrough short story “The Feminist,” published in the literary magazine n+1, generated significant online controversy...
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Mar 13, 2025
The cultural critic Katherine Dee has long argued that the true division in our culture will prove not to be Right vs. Left but Tech vs. Anti-Tech. One can see this...
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Jan 17, 2025
You already have an opinion on this man. You may like him, you may dislike him. You may have a long list of gripes about things he has said or things you imagine he has said:...
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Jan 3, 2025
It is a third thing, looking at your phone. It is not looking outward, observing the world. Neither is it looking inward, studying the motions of the soul. It is betwixt and between,...
Oct 29, 2025What does a screen do? We stare into screens all the time. But we take their form for granted. Why this plane? This surface? Why must the 2D continually slice the 3D world we...
Oct 2, 2025“Now what’s going to happen to us without barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution.” —C.P. Cavafy Hitting the road. Lighting out for the...
Sep 26, 2025It often feels like digital life moves too fast for ten fingers to capture it on a keyboard. Only the thumbs, busily pounding at their smartphone, can keep pace. Online life is...
May 14, 2025Let’s consider a writer who almost everyone approaches politically: Rudyard Kipling. This is understandable because Kipling often writes quite politically. (The author of a...
May 7, 2025According to Soren Kierkegaard, there are ages of reflection and ages of passion. Imagine, he says, that someone throws a gold doubloon onto the middle of a frozen pond. It is...
Apr 4, 2025Soren Kierkegaard once remarked that we can never be reminded too often that a man existed named Socrates. Agnes Callard’s Open Socrates thus comes as a particularly timely...
Mar 17, 2025Tony Tulathimutte’s breakthrough short story “The Feminist,” published in the literary magazine n+1, generated significant online controversy...
Mar 13, 2025The cultural critic Katherine Dee has long argued that the true division in our culture will prove not to be Right vs. Left but Tech vs. Anti-Tech. One can see this...
Jan 17, 2025You already have an opinion on this man. You may like him, you may dislike him. You may have a long list of gripes about things he has said or things you imagine he has said:...
Jan 3, 2025It is a third thing, looking at your phone. It is not looking outward, observing the world. Neither is it looking inward, studying the motions of the soul. It is betwixt and between,...