At 100, The New Yorker is venerable, storied, seemingly indestructible — just one more “gilded gargoyle on the cathedral of polite thinking”
Read the full article which is published on Arts and Letters Daily (external link)Foucault’s critique of power and knowledge shaped poststructuralism, yet its rejection of truth risks becoming its own orthodoxy. To remain...
This is Part 4 of a 4-part series on the academic, and specifically philosophical study of disagreement. In Part 1...
This is Part 3 of a 4-part series on the academic, and specifically philosophical study of disagreement. In Part 1...
This is Part 2 of a 4-part series on the academic, and specifically philosophical study of disagreement. In Part 1...
What's with the boom in biographies of people who never existed? The strange rise of a new literary genre
"Chekhov the ingenious hack and Chekhov the latter-day master are connected by way of Chekhov the neighborhood observer"
Cabbage brought nightmares, turnips brought lust, beans brought confusion. Medieval vegetables were less food than affliction
[Revised entry by Michael Seidler on July 29, 2026. Changes to: First Publication] [Editor’s Note: The following entry replaces and...
