On labor and liberation.
On a typewriter.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: tolerance, triteness, truth, and more.
Gaddis, DeLillo, and the assembly line of ideas.
Ride a horse and read the book.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: prayers, patriots, principles, and more.
A correspondence on The Chicago Thinker’s American Identity Summit.
Calvino’s literature in the anthropocene.
On inheritance.
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On cultural experiences
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Action comics, Dostoevsky, and how to be good in the absence of God.
On data destruction.
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On the vast beyond.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: New York, nova arts, New Right, and more.
A correspondence on the past, present, and future of the New Right.
The rigor and rapture of speaking in tongues.
On preserving interruptions.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: submissions, systems, self-obsession, and more.
A courtroom, Steinbeck, and our duty to forgive.
On the distortions of freedom.
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On what truth demands.
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A correspondence on contemporary art’s voyeuristic ouroboros.
On Czech American history and the University of Chicago.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: fascism, fetishism, funerals, and more.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: Wenders, Winter Freeze, Wikipedia, and more.
On Baudelaire’s beast of boredom.
Tocqueville and the virtue of action.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: microsociology, megalomaniacs, moments, and more.
On quarter-life panopticons.
On the logic of the underground.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: humor, house, Heights, and more.
Liberalism and the cruelty of the joke.
On house music and the party.
A correspondence on Merve Emre’s slick categories and living art.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: love, liberalism, latinidad, and more
On loving through looking.
Romanticism and the derivative heart.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: paradoxes, Polybius, puppets, and more.
A correspondence on sex puppets and participatory pleasures.
A correspondence on vibe coding an Authoritarian Consolidation Index.
C.S. Lewis, Taoism, and the ouroboros of grief.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: criticism, clubbing, clarity, and more.
On avoiding sublimation.
A correspondence on John J. Mearsheimer’s global punchlines.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: mania, murders, Mearsheimer, and more.
Nietzsche and Pynchon on letting go of guilt.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: rivers, responsibilities, rituals and more.
A correspondence on responsibility, circumstance, and Stoner.
The past, present, and future of water in the West.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: firsts, friends, friction and more.
On distractions from bravery.
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The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: Springsteen, Supreme, shapes, and more.
A correspondence on Robinson Crusoé and Americans in Paris.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: riots, reckoning, Robinson, and more.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: snobbery, surveillance, Symbolism, and more.
Wittgenstein’s language games and large language models.
A correspondence on Drieu La Rochelle, van Gogh, and a ride through the French countryside.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: Cinema, sex, scullery, and more.
On new things and blessed problems.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: Calvinism, capital, criticism, and more.
Consumerism’s tailor-made alienation.
A correspondence on finding America in Europe.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: Arendt, angels, Amersfoort, and more.
Hannah Arendt and freedom from politics.
A correspondence on administrative neglect at the University of Chicago.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: Baudrillard, books, bands, and more.
On false realities and real people.
A correspondence on the New York political scene.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: Seriousness, surveillance, circles, and more.
Running, suffering, and Sontag.
A correspondence on conspicuous absences.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: Striving, squirrels, spirals, and more.
On shoddy towers and disenchantment.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: Dogma, dialect, deputies, and more.
On the valley of progress.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: Galatea, GOATs, Theaster Gates, and more.
Loneliness and artificially intelligent boyfriends.
A correspondence from France.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: politics, paintballs, posters and more.
On national trauma and political disillusionment.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: The IRS, rappers, revolutionaries and more
On the works of David Foster Wallace.
The bind faced by America’s universities
On some things far more interesting than sex.
On Kanye’s study of sex
Lessons learned from the city of the future.
On Sex and the City.
On effing the ineffable.
Two new poems from Miles Cayman.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: parks, pedestrianism, pandemics, and more.
The new New York waterfront
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: masters, malapropisms, matrices, and more.
On the currency of desire.
On Borges, sex, knowledge, and power.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: Tigranes, tigers, trap, and more.
James Bennet and the new digital media
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: pit vipers, poetry, parenting, and more.
On validation.
On possessing a sexual consciousness.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: language, literature, liturgy, and more.
Trans rights and the left.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: Emcees, empires, elites, and more.
On making a heaven of hell.
On our necessary work and responsibility.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: Biographies, boats, barbarism, and more.
The shoemaker’s dilemma.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: miles, magic, materialism, and more.
On the ivory tower being built to fall.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: meaning, mystery, mechanisms, and more.
How liberalism wrote out friendship.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: leisure, law, and luxury.
On giving education a break.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: England, eros, and exile.
The transformative experience of beauty.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: priestesses, poems, patriots, and more.
On returning to the real world.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: artificial intelligence, affection, and absurdity.
Artificial intelligence and the nature of creativity.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: monsters, masters, and magnum opuses.
On The Glass Bead Game.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: Diffidence, dread, design, and more.
Hobbes, Rawls, and the nation conceived in liberty.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: Pushkin, presidents, pitchforks, and more.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: Hannah Arendt, humor, harmonicas, and more.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: Christians, carols, cigars, and more.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: ChatGPT, clouds, classrooms, and more.
Writing in the age of artificial reproduction.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: flights, fights, futility, and more.
On boredom, anxiety, and perpetual busyness.
On loving a country’s ends, not the country itself.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: conspiracies, crimes, cokes, and more.
The utopianism behind conspiracy thinking.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: priests, poetry, protest, and more.
On A Farewell to Arms.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: Chicago, cymbals, comedy, and more.
The many faces of The Chicago Canon on Free Inquiry and Expression.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: Brooklyn, brutalism, bugs, and more.
On patriotism as alliance against a common enemy.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: transcendence, technology, theophany, and more.
Time and the contemplative life.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: families, film, fathers, and more.
On finding love in the courage of the just.
On my father’s love of country.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: mathematics, millennials, mystics, and more.
John von Neumann and the birth of a tragic mathematics.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: farragoes, failures, false prophets, and more.
On false prophets and forthright patriots.
On America’s pastime.
The limits of reason, from Bollywood to Isaiah Berlin.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: internet extremism, incertitude, illiberalism, and more.
On converting to Catholicism (or Straussianism).
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: Parmenides, politics, polyphony, and more.
A new understanding of digital hatred.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: bobos, babies, breakthroughs, and more.
On honesty as an act of love.
On the founding and future of The Harper Review.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: bobos, babies, breakthroughs, and more.
Europe’s attempt to wash its hands of dirty farmers.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: Civil War, suppression, sacraments, and more.
On taking a leap of faith.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: chess, church, the Constitution, and more.
Bringing LGBT Catholics under the Church’s social contract.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: digitalization, democracy, divinity, and more.
On children’s natural nose for lies.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: revolution, radiation, readership, and more.
A critique of commodified resistance.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: Martin Scorsese, marketplaces, the Meiji era, and more.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: SpaceX, the Second Amendment, shoulder pads, and more.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: mystique, marriage, mania, and more.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: fortitude, flourishing, free speech, and more.
On what remembering is for.
On remembering that you’re stronger than you seem.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: humanities, Heidegger, hate, and more.
The ethics of artificially intelligent weapons.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: memory, manufacturing, maintaining mastery, and more.
On our ever-fleeting present existence.
On whether it’s possible to never forget.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: Spanish socialism, legal legitimacy, cultural critique, and more.
What Hamlet reveals about the pitfalls of critical art.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: progressivism, limitarianism, neorealism, and more.
On Islamophobia and American history.
On building and understanding history.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: assassination, Amazon, apartheid, and more.
Fearless journalism in Elena Kostyuchenko’s I Love Russia.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: cinema, censorship, culture, and more.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: competition, counseling, courts, and more.
On W. B. Yeats and artistic inspiration.
On remembering and the silver screen.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: new year, new editions, old news, and more.
Cultural alienation and the humanities.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: new year, new editions, old news, and more.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: merry Christmas from the editors!
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: Nietzsche, networks, Nussbaum, and more.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: intimacy, efficiency, artillery, and more.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: money, marble, mass media, and more.
Rethinking technology’s ends.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: Reaganomics, revolution, Richard III, and more.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: #MeToo, Mary Magdalene, memory, and more.
Digital formation in Antón Barba-Kay’s A Web of Our Own Making.
On combat as the pursuit of wisdom.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: borders, globalism, outer space, and more.
On choosing friendships—or not.
The problem of the twenty-first century.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: publishing, policing, paganism, and more.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: exhibitions, exceptions, elections, and more.
On friendship as an optimization problem.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: phonies, film, Frantz Fanon, and more.
The problem with Ron Mueck at the Fondation Cartier.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: clothing, the Cold War, constitutions, and more.
On agreeing with your friends.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: friendship, fascism, French art, and more.
Soaring mental health risks for girls.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: tradition, renaissance, revisionism, and more.
Should friends share your values? On friendship beyond values.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: surrealism, seminars, the second sex, and more.
Michel Houellebecq and the politics of French culture.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: gilded glamor, graphite drawings, country living, and more.
Must art be political? On the inherently political content of art.
The waning power of minimalist design.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: scribbles, screening, strikes and more.
Why you’re terrified of modern art.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: sovereignty, stripes, sustainability, and more.
Must art be political? On perpetually political symbols.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: secrecy, elites, potholes, and more.
The undemocratic wages of state secrecy.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: new essays, old women, super egos, and more.
John Ruskin and the imperfect worker.
Must art be political? On Francisco de Goya’s The Third of May.
Must art be political? On the artist’s apolitical delusion.
Must art be political? On art and moral purity in today’s world.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: speed, surrealism, South Korea, and more.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: Sophists, Schmitt, Shakespeare, and more.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: Bolsheviks, bohemians, bestiality, and more.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: McKinsey, Murdoch, marriages, and more.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: postmoderns, chatbots, Rastafarians, and more.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: book banning, party politics, caped crusaders and more.
Rediscovering Simone Weil’s critique of liberalism.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: isolation, information, internationalism, and more.
Is civility outdated? A letter on the changing conditions for civility over time.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: worshipping, gobbling, hobnobbing and more.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: CULTs, truthseekers, spokescandies, and more.
Our confused church-state discourse and its Jeffersonian roots.
Is civility outdated? A letter on when we’re permitted to break the law.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: English majors, French mystics, the American Mint, and more.
Is civility outdated? A letter on authentic human connection.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: superheroes, liberals, billionaires, and more.
Our generation’s struggle with individualist activism.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: critics, classics, special collections, and more.
Is civility outdated? A letter on confronting the humanity of others.
Truth, politics, and the polarized media.
Is civility outdated? A letter on the digital age.
Is civility outdated? A letter on drinking Fernet.
The pernicious, underlying morality of therapy culture.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: punk fashion, eccentric collectors, ancient heresies, and more.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: industry, investigations, innovators, and more.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: prophecy, pornography, political economy, and more.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: self-annihilation, strikes, skepticism, and more.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: astral abstraction, bestselling books, CCP censorship, and more.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: Joan Didion, tradition, innovation, and more.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: law, Louis Sullivan, liberalism, and more.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: ancient polychromy, modern sexuality, Urbit, and more.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: geniuses, losers, cricketers, and more.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: Titian, technocracy, tomato soup, and more.
The Harper Review’s weekly newsletter: Christopher Lasch, monochrome art, Biden’s speech, and more.