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Alienation
Why Life Feels Like a TV Show

We’ve been alienated not only from the world, but from ourselves.

(Bruce Nauman, Art Institute of Chicago)
Nature vs. Nurture
What The Culture War Is Really About

It’s not race or gender or even free speech. The real debate is about human nature.

(Wikimedia Commons)
creative destruction
The Carnival We Need

Contemporary millennial culture has more than enough transgression. What it lacks is transgression in the service of transcendence.

The Old Gods And The New
The Neo-Paganism of Jordan Peterson

In the materialist gospel of right-wing atavism, longevity and teleology are one and the same.

(Wikipedia Commons)
The Great Awokening
The Rise of Progressive Occultism

Or why Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez felt compelled to share her birth chart.

Voltaire (Wikimedia Commons)
Panglossian Harmony
All for the Best

City Opera’s revived production of Candide is a bleak, and hilarious, musical comedy—equal parts light opera and brutal savaging thereof.

Parallels
Trump Before Trump

What a nineteenth century poet-turned-politician can warn us about the consequences of the 2016 elections.

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