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...

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...

Philip Rieff, known as the former husband of Susan Sontag, was a conservative sociologist who criticized American society as violent and doomed. He advocated...

The concept of the liberalism of permanent minorities, as proposed by Judith Shklar, challenges our common understanding of minorities and majorities. Shklar...

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...

The article discusses the changing rhetoric around abortion in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The left, which previously championed bodily autonomy an...

"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...

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...

Richard Howard's "Alone with America" is a critique of postwar American poetry, analyzing the works of 41 poets who struggled with America's disconnection fr...

The article discusses the question of when leaders should break the law in times of emergencies. It examines the tension between individual rights and the ne...