Articles of Note

Foucault and Lasch are rarely read as kindred thinkers. Yet they help to explain how we became so fixated on identity... more »

New Books

Dostoyevsky's St. Petersburg flowed with nihilism, egoism, materialism. All of it went into Crime and Punishment... more »

Essays & Opinions

Futurists are drawn to the sensational and the unlikely: brain uploading, magnetic floating cars. But the actual future will be more like today’s world  ... more »