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Do We Really Need More Controversial Ideas? A new journal encourages scholars to share their most dangerous and tasteless thoughts. By Tom Bartlett The Chronicle of Higher Education May 17, 2021 More than 30,000 academic journals publish in excess of two-million papers every year, which works out to something like 5,000 per day or about 200 per hour. That’s a lot; too many, some have argued. It’..

Stages of Grief By William Deresiewicz, Harper's Magazine June 2021 Issue What the pandemic has done to the arts Illustrations by Diana Ejaita [Report] It doesn’t take a Leonardo-level intellect to figure out that the pandemic has been devastating for the arts economy. Live events were the first things to stop, and they will be the last to return. That means musicians, actors, and dancers, plus ..

The clothing revolution What if the need for fabric, not food, in the face of a changing climate is what first tipped humanity towards agriculture? Ian Gilligan Aeon 13 May 2021 Ian Gilligan is a prehistorian at the University of Sydney. He is the author of Climate, Clothing, and Agriculture in Prehistory: Linking Evidence, Causes, and Effects (2019). Archaeologists and other scientists are begi..

The Egghead Gap If America wants to keep China from setting the global course of science, we need a crash program to recruit international talent. Caleb Watney The New Atlantis 2921 Winter issue Science and technology support innovation, economic growth, and military might, making them central pillars of geopolitical competition. F or the last three decades, the United States has been mostly unc..

Perfect Imperfection The human capacity to imagine perfection sets you up for a losing battle. Sarah Gorham’s “Study in Perfect” offers a creative and emotionally poignant glimpse into the illusive promise of perfection, and the humanizing (and more likely) results of imperfection. By Sarah Gorham Utne The chapter “Be There No Human Here” looks through a lens of birds—people with pet parakeets, ..

The fall of the intellectual Where have all the great thinkers gone? By Ross Douthat NewStatesm;an 5 May 2021 In the month before it was pulled by its publisher because of its author’s alleged sexual predations, Blake Bailey’s biography of Philip Roth produced an outpouring of terrifically entertaining reviews in the literary pages of East Coast periodicals – the New Republic, Bookforum, Harper’..

A pillar of western thought, or flawed political thinker? An 18th-century engraving of David Hume. Image: Science & Society Picture Library/Getty images Critical thinking Magazine Philosophy David Hume enlightenment The Hume paradox: how great philosophy leads to dismal politics The Enlightenment genius showed how admirable scepticism in the world of ideas can translate into a miserable reaction..

학술 · 연구 마르크스 이후의 마르크스주의 - 우리에게 마르크스는 무엇인가? 대학지성 In & Out 기자 2021.05.03 00:37 ■ 열린연단: 문화의 안과 밖 _ 강신준 동아대학교 명예교수의 「마르크스 이후의 마르크스주의」 네이버문화재단의 일곱 번째 시리즈 ‘문화정전’ 강연이 매주 토요일 서울의 네이버 파트너스퀘어 종로에서 진행되고 있다. 인류 문명의 문화 양식은 오랜 역사를 통해서 문화 전통, 사회적 관습으로 진화하며 인류 지성사의 저서인 '고전'을 남겼다. 이들 고전적 저술 가운데, 인간적 수련에 핵심적이라 받아들여지는 저술을 문화 정전(正典)이라고 할 수 있다. 전체 52회로 구성된 이번 시리즈는 인류가 쌓아온 지적 자산인 동서양의 ‘문화 정전(正典)’을 통해 오늘을 사는 현대인들이 마주한..

The Greatest Christian Novel by Gary Saul Morson First Things May 2021 When Dostoevsky wrote his last and greatest novel, The Brothers Karamazov, the ­revolutionary movement that would lead to Bolshevism was well ­underway. The terrorist organization People’s Will—one of the first such organizations in the world—performed daring assassinations and was soon to murder Russia’s most liberal tsar, A..

What Makes Music Universal Music brings us together to show us how different we are. Kevin Berger Nautilus April 28, 2021 My friend Robert Burton, a neurologist and author, wanted to share a song with me last year, and sent me a link to an NPR Tiny Desk…By Kevin Berger My friend Robert Burton, a neurologist and author, wanted to share a song with me last year, and sent me a link to an NPR Tiny D..