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The Stranglehold of Relevance
Roger BerkowitzRobert Boyers interviews Jed Perl about the place of freedom and authority in art.
02-05-2023
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Capitalism and Empathy
Roger BerkowitzFor Corey Robin, the history of the last 300 years teaches us that the most important political struggles are about who can regulate the market. Whoever does so will determine where power rests. And that is the lesson Robin argues the present-day left is refusing to learn.
11-27-2022
What’s the Point of Museums?
Roger BerkowitzThere is a yearning for a truly non-biased and fully-inclusive museum. And since such a museum and such a show cannot exist, one group of curators have asked, "What's the Point of Museums?"
11-27-2022
What we learned
The midterm elections saw many crazy Trump-identified candidates lose, which dragged down the Republican Party and allowed the Democrats to hold the Senate. As of now, however, Republican candidates did win the popular vote. What is more, the Republicans continued to make strong inroads into core Democratic constituencies in Hispanic and Black voters, as well as college-educated white women in the suburbs.11-20-2022
Realists, Optimists, and Revisionists
Roger BerkowitzAs Ukraine consolidates its victories in the South, it is worth asking, when and how will this war end? Ivan Krastev asks this question and outlines three different positions, the realists, the optimists, and the revisionists.
11-13-2022
An Aesthetic Find
Roger BerkowitzOf all of Hegel’s great works, only the Aesthetics has not yet existed in a complete form. That may change.
10-30-2022
A Cultural Breakdown
Roger BerkowitzPolitical violence is on the rise. The attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband this week is only the latest example.
10-30-2022
Regrets
Roger BerkowitzIn June 2020, The New York Times published an op-ed in which Senator Tom Cotton argued in favor of using federal troops in the wake of the murder of George Floyd. In an essay published over two years after the controversy, the Washington Post's Erik Wemple writes that he and others should have defended the decision by the times.
10-30-2022
Will the Youth Turn Right?
Roger BerkowitzN.S. Lyons explores an argument made Angela Nagle in her book Who Killed All the Normies? That the moral probity of the left will eventually strangle the energy of the movement and turn young and rebellious free thinkers to the right.
10-23-2022
Legally, The Whole Ballgame
Roger BerkowitzOn December 7th, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in the case of Moore v. Harper, a case that may very well influence the fate of the American Republic.
10-23-2022