이강기

The end of meat? Today's morality advocates eating less animal protein and more sustainable weird stuffJoseph Brean The National Post, October 4, 2019 The post-meat world will be free of the agony suffered by animals, and the ecological degradation suffered by everyone else. That is the story anyway Uncooked Beyond Meat plant-based burger patties sit in the kitchen at a TGI Fr..

Christianity and the Cult of Trump The president’s following originates from a problematic heritage. By Miguel A. De La Torre, from Burying White Privilege UTNE| August 2019 Photo by Getty Images/PixelCatchers. The authoritarian, patriarchal Trump style is not a stranger to the Eurocentric Christian world. The Christian faith, in its political construction, was founded upon ..

Why can’t we agree on what’s true any more? It’s not about foreign trolls, filter bubbles or fake news. Technology encourages us to believe we can all have first-hand access to the ‘real’ facts – and now we can’t stop fighting about it. By William DaviesThe Guardian Thu 19 Sep 2019 We live in a time of political fury and hardening cultural divides. But if there i..

HappinessThe Impossible Dream How have we come to build a whole culture around a futile, self-defeating enterprise: the pursuit of happiness? By David WoottonLapham's Quarterly 2019 Summer Issue Declaration of Independence, by John Trumbull, 1819. U.S. Capitol. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with c..

HappinessGovernment Work Could a Ministry of Happiness improve the lives of India’s citizens? By Maddy CrowellLapham's Quarterly, 2019 Summer Issue Radha and Krishna Walk in a Flowering Grove, by the Kota Master, c. 1720. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon B. Polsky Fund, 2003. Reporting for this story was supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis ..

After Epstein, Our Elites Must Reform or Face the Fire Percy Shelley and post-French Revolution England show how a society can preserve itself even in the face of corruption. By James P. Pinkerton The American ConservativeAugust 14, 2019 Jeffrey Epstein mugshot (public domain) #google_ads_iframe_\/339474670\/ADN_Native\/TAC_Native_1__container__ {padding: 10px 0; margin-bottom:..

A Cultural Agenda for Our TimePhilip Jeffery National Affairs Summer issue, 2016 One friday afternoon in November 1948, T. S. Eliot opened a new chapter in American culture policy. Eliot, just two weeks removed from winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, spoke at the invitation of the Library of Congress on Edgar Allan Poe's significance as a poet. He derided Poe as immature..

.happiness .color-100 {color: #ef3340 !important;} .happiness .color-100:before {color: #ef3340 !important;} .happiness .border-color-100 {border-color: #ef3340 !important;} .border-color-100::after{background-color: #ef3340!important;} .happiness .pagi-left-color-100:before {border-left-color: #ef3340 !important;} .happiness .pagi-right-color-100:before {border-right-color: #..

What Is National Greatness?Ryan P. Hanley The National Affairs, number 39 • Spring 2019 Lately it seems like everyone wants to make their nations great again. President Xi Jinping inspires China with fear of "national humiliation" and promise of "great revival." President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accuses Europe of having "humiliated" Turkey and promises a "continuation" of the O..

My Mother’s Tongue By Zavi Engles Rumpus, April 25th, 2019 My favorite photo of my mother and me features a car accident. We are walking down a sidewalk, holding hands, wearing long cotton dresses. Ahead of us, a sedan has crashed through the window display of a clothing store. We look purposeful and resolute, my mother and I, as though we might motion for the driver to move..