Posts
Christopher Columbus and the Modern Hatred of Great Men
The obvious solution would be to dispense with history altogether. Unfortunately, this would leave us with the present, which is hardly an improvement.
Mamdani and the Politics of Compulsory Grief
The strange thing is the compulsion to make every act of mourning contain its opposite. Our public culture has become terrified of particular grief.
Nikole Hannah-Jones and Parental Idealism
A decent politics has to begin from the stubborn fact that human beings love particular people more than humanity in the abstract.
9/10
America was not innocent in 2001. What America possessed was something more peculiar than innocence: the assumption that catastrophe was an interruption
The Limits of Therapeutic Compassion
It's possible to believe Clancy was profoundly mentally ill and genuinely suicidal without it settling the question of her responsibility.
AOC’s Frozen Eggs and the Fantasy of Having It All
A civilization that cannot reproduce itself has a problem. A culture where we fail to achieve the family lives we say we want has a problem.
Catholic Sisters Shouldn’t be Forced to Facilitate Assisted Suicide
There is a moral difference between accepting the natural limits of medicine and intentionally causing death.
What Maine Democrats Chose to Ignore
The accusations gathered slowly, like ominous clouds over a harbor, and still the party sailed on.