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Loneliness Unsolved
This article explores the modern phenomenon of loneliness, tracing its emergence as a widespread societal concern and examining its potential causes and impacts. It discusses various perspectives on loneliness, from historical to contemporary research, highlighting how societal changes and technological advancements have influenced social connections. The piece concludes by suggesting that current feelings of isolation may be part of a larger evolutionary process, as society adapts to new forms of connection and community in the digital age08-31-2024
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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
1619 to 2022
Roger BerkowitzI’ve been teaching the 1619 Project in classes this week. I was excited to see that Mark Weitzmann has a long essay exploring Nikole Hannah Jones and the controversy around the 1619 Project as a rorschach test for the American discourse on race.
10-09-2022
Looking Critically at DEI Curricula in K-12 Education
Roger BerkowitzThe Editors of the Journal of Free Black thought have published an abridged version of their report on “Six Unsettling Features of DEI in K-12.” It is hardly a demonization of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion syllabi. But the Journal’s report does raise serious questions about the potential harms associated with some but certainly not all DEI practices.
10-02-2022
Is Alt-Right the New Black?
Roger BerkowitzN.S. Lyons argues that if the youth of today rebel, "they’re likely to rebel in the only direction they now can: by becoming more traditionalist and conservative.”
09-25-2022