Ever heard of Émilie Du Châtelet, Margaret Cavendish, or Anne Conway? Like most women, theyve been left out of the philosophical canon ... more »
A tale of two Marys. Wollstonecraft, the radical polemicist, and Shelley, her daughter, a coldhearted writer and member of the league of incest... more »
For Jonathan Franzen, America's ideology of progress, technology, and cheeriness echoes Vienna in 1910. Time for a corrective. Time for Karl Kraus... more »