Rachel Howard recounts a harrowing experience brought on by the worsening climate crisis.
Of Kierkegaard and Climate Change
Essays
A Brush with Life: Shirley Hazzard and Francis Steegmuller in Naples
Amy Bagan explores the nostalgia and poetic observations of Naples in Shirley Hazzard and Francis Steegmuller's writing.
Philosophical Magic
Crispin Sartwell and John Kaag pay homage to the influential New York Times philosophy section The Stone.
“Beware Flatterers” is Old Advice for a New Age of Impunity
Cynthia Nazarian finds new relevance for received wisdom.
Our Second April
V.M. Braganza uses the experiences of a year in quarantine with the words of poet Edna St. Vincent Millay.
On Democracy and Doris Lessing
A fly hums between the glowing bulb and smooth interior of my oversized floor lamp. I’m sprawled on the floor, …
Anti-Asian Violence: Where Do the East Asian and SWANA Communities Go from Here?
Yunus Kovankaya writes about the complex interrelations between Asian and SWANA groups in the US and imperative of unity.
How Lewis Carroll Challenged White Supremacy
"Alice and her strange companions do not represent the 'barbarous' stages of development that Descent... linked to nonwhite peoples."
Reflections on the Mirror Stage
Hollis Robbins reflects on the uses of the college admissions essay, and what it says about young applicants.
Jennifer Jason Leigh and Me
Greg Gerke muses on his teenage heartthrob, and what she means to him now.
