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