Writing
Arc
James Merrill and Gary Snyder—March 20, 2024
Marilynne Robinson—September 13, 2024
Airmail
Review of ‘The Secret Public’—January 25, 2025
‘Cruising’—November 9, 2024
Hedgehog Review
Just Another Liberalism? (on Foucault)—Spring 2025
I Love You, In Theory (on Roland Barthes)—Spring 2023
American Affairs
Byung-Chul Han—Fall 2024
Christopher Rufo—Summer 2023
A Blue-Print for Post-Boomer Politics—Spring 2023
Raymond Geuss — Fall 2022
Liberalism for Losers: Carl Schmitt’s “The Tyranny of Values” — Spring 2021
PN Review
Review of Jimin Seo’s Ossia-Fall 2024
Foreign Policy
Timothy Garton Ash—August 20, 2023
Remembering Covid—March 24, 2023
Francis Fukuyama—December 18, 2022
Absolute Bureaucracy— November 13, 2022
The Real Philosophy of Emmanuel Macron — January 2, 2022
Bernard-Henri Lévy— April 9, 2021
Jürgen Habermas— February 7, 2021
Chronicle of Higher Education
How Queer Theory Turned its Back on Gay Men (with Taeho Kim)—March 20, 2024
Review of Caroline Levine’s The Activist Humanist—October 27, 2023
Review of Lee Edelman’s ‘Bad Education’— February 16, 2023
Against the Writing Center— January 3, 2023
Do Administrators Think They’re Spiritual Healers? — October 12, 2022
Our Students Don’t Need Identitarian Paternalism — August 18, 2022
Yes Professors ‘Groom’ Their Students — May 23, 2022
Tablet
Phoebe Maltz Bovy—November 18, 2024
Judith Butler—September 11, 2024
Nathaniel Rudvasky-Brody—July 29, 2024
Fran Lebowitz—June 24, 2024
Julia Kristeva—June 3, 2024
Larry Kramer’s Faggots—May 30, 2024
Susan Sontag’s The Volcano Lover—January 23, 2024
Shelby Foote—September 6, 2023
Review of Susan Taubes’ ‘Lament for Julia’—July 16, 2023
Michael Denneny and Hannah Arendt—May 9, 2023
Andrea Long Chu—April 13, 2023
Eric Marty—March 26, 2023 (and response to Eric Marty, March 31)
Bronze Age Pervert— February 14, 2023
Eve Sedgwick—January 11, 2023
Philip Rieff— December 14, 2022
Freedom to Think Differently (Judith Shklar)— November 9, 2022
Beyond Poetry (Laura Riding) — September 11, 2022
My Body, My Choice? — July 19, 2022
Why Read Jacob Taubes? — July 6, 2022
The Privilege of Being Nobody — June 8, 2022
Richard Howard’s Politics of Togetherness — April 25, 2022
When Should Leaders Break the Law? — April 5, 2022
The Professor of Apocalypse — February 21, 2022
A Tzaddik’s Rebellious Son — January 2, 2022
Are Conservatives the New Queers? — December 8, 2021
Against Immunity — November 1, 2021
The Open Society and Its Prophets (Henri Bergson) — October 3, 2021
Roland Barthes and the Value of Closets — August 2, 2021
The Lie of Silence — July 18, 2021
Beauty and the Blob (on Dave Hickey) — June 13, 2021
Is Being Essentially Jewish (on Benjamin Fondane) — April 18, 2021
The Woke Meritocracy — April 4, 2021
All We Need Is Hate? — January 10, 2021
Hannah Arendt’s Critique of Social Media — December 3, 2020
The White Scare — October 4, 2020
Stanley Fish and the Argument Against Free Speech — July 20, 2020
County Highway (Print-Only)
W.J. Cash’s The Mind of the South-Summer 2023
Cal Yeomans, Ernest Mickler, and Andrew Holleran-Fall 2023
Tocqueville 21
Quentin Crisp and Political Courage — March 2, 2021
Democracy’s Future: Philosophy and Queerness as Ways of Death — October 11, 2020
Foucault on Liberal Democracy, Historicism and Philosophy — May 9, 2020
An Existentialist Tocqueville? Beauvoir against America — January 31, 2020
Pierre Manent in Search of the Political — October 4, 2019
Palladium
Yan Fu’s Lessons on the True Mission of Liberalism — February 16, 2021
Aeon
On Prejudice — March 5, 2018
The Madras Observatory: From Jesuit Cooperation to British Rule — October 11, 2017
For Centuries European Aristocrats Proudly Claimed Foreign Ancestry — June 5, 2017
Revolutionary Heroes — December 7, 2016
Before Indiana Jones came Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron — October 3, 2016
Slavery as Free Trade — June 29, 2016
Journal of the History of Ideas Blog
The Emotional Life of Laissez-Faire: Emulation in Eighteenth-Century Economic Thought — October 18, 2017
Age of Revolutions
The Death of Louis XVI — September 20, 2021
The French Revolution Against Caste — March 8, 2021
The (Failed) French Revolution against Medical Expertise and Foucault’s Philosophy of History — June 8, 2020
The Sacred French Revolution: Emile Durkheim, Lynn Hunt, and Historians — December 4, 2019
The Citizen-Sultan? A Jacobin Club in India — May 9, 2016
Ruins and Revolution: Volney, Palmyra, and ISIS — March 7, 2016