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Pastlessness The stuff of history is not outside us. Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn The Hedgehog Review, Summer 2022 Issue Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn is a professor of history in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University and a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture. Her books include Ars Vitae: The Fate of Inwardness and the Return of th..

How Universal Are Our Emotions? Psychologists have argued that affect is profoundly shaped by culture. They shouldn’t feel so confident. By Nikhil Krishnan The New Yorker August 8, 2022 Issue August 1, 2022 Emotions can be thought of as “relational acts between people,” Batja Mesquita writes, rather than as mental states inside us.Illustration by María Medem There’s nothing like migration to rev..

Christianity and Poetry by Dana Gioia First Things August 2022 I When I became a man, I put away childish things. —St. Paul, 1 Corinthians 13 Most Christians misunderstand the relationship of poetry to their faith. They consider it an admirable but minor aspect of religious practice—elegant verbal decoration in honor of the divine. They recognize poetry’s place in worship. Congregations need hym..

The 50 Greatest Fictional Deaths of All Time The most tearjerking, hilarious, satisfying, and shocking death scenes in 2,500 years of culture. By Dan Kois Slate, July 20, 2022 It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done,” Sydney Carton thinks on his way to the guillotine. That far better thing is dying tragically, for many reasons: to save an innocent man, to fulfill his own r..

Illustration by Richard Wilkinson Imaginary numbers are real These odd values were long dismissed as bookkeeping. Now physicists are proving that they describe the hidden shape of nature by Karmela Padavic-Callaghan + BIO Aeon, 14 July 2022 Karmela Padavic-Callaghan is a physics reporter at New Scientist. Her writing has appeared in Wired, Slate and Scientific American, among other publications...

What's behind the war on cash? Everything is going digital, even money. But what’s behind the drive to stop us using “dirty cash”? By Brett Scott The New Humanist Monday, 11th July 2022 When I was a boy growing up in South Africa, I would go to a church where the preacher would passionately lecture us about a benevolent God who wanted everyone to come into his fold. The only condition was that y..

No, Karl Marx Was Not Eurocentric Critics of Marx have accused him of imposing a European model of historical development on the rest of the world. But the real Marx rejected Eurocentric thinking and developed a sophisticated view of world history in all its diversity and complexity. By Kevin B. Anderson Jacobin, 07.19.2022 The gravestone of Karl Marx in North London, England. (Pedro Cambra / Fl..

Ulysses at 100 By Our Editors The American Scholar June 16, 2022 Is there a novel more revered—and more famously unread—than James Joyce’s Ulysses? Despite its complexities, this love letter to Dublin, published a century ago, is a very readable chronicle of everyday life and everyday struggles. It’s a book about marriage, sex, religion, food, art, loneliness, companionship, and so much else. It..

Extremadura, Spain. Photo by Jean Gaumy/Magnum Why read Fichte today? Inspired by Kant, Fichte launched a radical philosophical system based on subjectivity and aspiring to freedom for all by Gabriel Gottlieb + BIO Aeon, 15 July 2022 Gabriel Gottlieb is associate professor of philosophy at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is the editor of Fichte’s Foundations of Natural Right: A Critica..

Pericles’ Funeral Oration (Perikles hält die Leichenrede) by Philipp Foltz (1852). The Classically Greek Roots of Civilizational Self-Doubt The Greeks were the first of all peoples to look at themselves in the mirror. Benedict Beckeld Quillette, 13 Jul 2022 It is because self-awareness is one of the prerequisites of oikophobia—the fear or hatred of one’s own society or civilization—that the Gree..