Articles of Note

Politicians talk about evil as if it could be eradicated. But the only effective strategy begins with accepting that evil will never go away... more »


New Books

Working in different languages at nearly the same time, Shakespeare and Montaigne invented the stylistic means for reflecting on the human condition... more »


Essays & Opinions

?Utopianism,' said Irving Howe, ?is a necessity of the moral imagination.' He remained as committed to socialism in the 1980s as he'd been in the '30s, and to literature as much as politics... more »