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Tablet The Long Goodbye 14 Apr 2023
The text discusses the writings of essayist Andrea Long Chu, who gained attention for her essays on topics such as transitioning and femininity. The author a...
14 Apr 2023
Tablet The Inner Life of Gender 27 Mar 2023
The article discusses the concept of gender and its ideological implications. It explores how gender has become a prominent aspect of identity and how it is ...
27 Mar 2023
Tablet Bronze Age Pervert’s Dissertation on Leo Strauss 15 Feb 2023
Leo Strauss is a political philosopher who combines a respect for liberal democracy with a concern that it stifles free thinking. His student, Allan Bloom, g...
15 Feb 2023
Tablet Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Big Fat Nonbinary Mistake 12 Jan 2023
In this article, the author criticizes Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, a founder of queer theory, for her approach to studying male homosexuality in literature. The a...
12 Jan 2023
Tablet The Secret Life of Philip Rieff 15 Dec 2022
Philip Rieff, known as the former husband of Susan Sontag, was a conservative sociologist who criticized American society as violent and doomed. He advocated...
15 Dec 2022
Tablet The Freedom to Think Differently 10 Nov 2022
The concept of the liberalism of permanent minorities, as proposed by Judith Shklar, challenges our common understanding of minorities and majorities. Shklar...
10 Nov 2022
Tablet Beyond Poetry 12 Sep 2022
Laura Riding, a lesser-known American modernist poet, renounced poetry in her 40s and turned to citrus farming and the philosophy of language. She believed t...
12 Sep 2022
Tablet My Body, My Choice? 20 Jul 2022
The article discusses the changing rhetoric around abortion in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The left, which previously championed bodily autonomy an...
20 Jul 2022
Tablet Why Read Taubes? 7 Jul 2022
"The Professor of Apocalypse" by Jerry Muller is a biography that explores the life of Jacob Taubes, a Jewish thinker who had a significant impact on 20th-ce...
7 Jul 2022
Tablet The Privilege of Being Nobody 9 Jun 2022
The essay discusses how the perception of being a refugee has changed over time. In Hannah Arendt's era, being a refugee meant being stripped of all status a...
9 Jun 2022