Strawberry Fields Forever: Amie Whittemore’s “Nest of Matches”
Essay - “Lilies/finch/flinches/nest/basil/hair/hat. I would swear before a jury that those are all legitimate off-rhymes, even if I were convicted of perjury for it. I wish that Shelley or Keats or Lorca or Miguel Hernández were alive so that I could pass this poem along to them.” (4/13/2025)
Essay - “Lilies/finch/flinches/nest/basil/hair/hat. I would swear before a jury that those are all legitimate off-rhymes, even if I were convicted of perjury for it. I wish that Shelley or Keats or Lorca or Miguel Hernández were alive so that I could pass this poem along to them.” (4/13/2025)New Poems:
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Making Sense of the Rotherham Child Sex Abuse Scandal
Essay - “British cultural and political life is governed, accordingly, largely by emotion and instinct.” (4/2/2025)
Essay - “British cultural and political life is governed, accordingly, largely by emotion and instinct.” (4/2/2025)Cosmic Comic Kvetching in Anthony Immergluck’s “The Worried Well” Essay - “The grand Guignol exaggeration provides an excellent comic read, as we fail to take completely seriously his worrywart grandstanding. Chances are, we have known someone exactly like him, who upon greeting us, got straight to describing their various medical conditions, real and imagined in excruciating detail.” (3/30/2025)
Essay - “The grand Guignol exaggeration provides an excellent comic read, as we fail to take completely seriously his worrywart grandstanding. Chances are, we have known someone exactly like him, who upon greeting us, got straight to describing their various medical conditions, real and imagined in excruciating detail.” (3/30/2025)Walking and Thinking Essay - “Nevertheless, I am often struck by how many great thinkers have also been great walkers.” (3/27/2025)
Essay - “Nevertheless, I am often struck by how many great thinkers have also been great walkers.” (3/27/2025)Why We Should Still Read Orestes Brownson Op-Ed - “What our country needs is a long-term, multi-pronged rediscovery of the true Constitution and a commitment to live by it. The thought of Orestes Brownson can help us in this rediscovery.” (3/25/2025)
Op-Ed - “What our country needs is a long-term, multi-pronged rediscovery of the true Constitution and a commitment to live by it. The thought of Orestes Brownson can help us in this rediscovery.” (3/25/2025)Germany’s Lingering Hegelianism
Essay - “And so things continue as before, because in a post-historical era, sprinkled with German-Hegelian state worship and a view of oneself as the summit of civilizational development, there is no need to move from the spot one has occupied.” (3/23/2025)
Essay - “And so things continue as before, because in a post-historical era, sprinkled with German-Hegelian state worship and a view of oneself as the summit of civilizational development, there is no need to move from the spot one has occupied.” (3/23/2025)What Progressives Need to Do Op-Ed - “No, not everyone on the Left supported these tyrannies, yet what progressives cannot escape is that much of the Left lent political legitimacy to regimes that destroyed and damaged tens of millions of lives, leaving festering wounds that still bleed today.” (3/21/2025)
Op-Ed - “No, not everyone on the Left supported these tyrannies, yet what progressives cannot escape is that much of the Left lent political legitimacy to regimes that destroyed and damaged tens of millions of lives, leaving festering wounds that still bleed today.” (3/21/2025)Christianity and the West―Criticizing Lawrence Auster
Essay - “It was Christianity that became Europe’s unifying ideology and inspired figures from Charlemagne to Columbus.” (3/19/2025)
Essay - “It was Christianity that became Europe’s unifying ideology and inspired figures from Charlemagne to Columbus.” (3/19/2025)The Rooted and the Restless
Essay - “I was born in the 1990s, into one of the countless middle-class Indian families that were sprouting like saplings after the rains, in the wake of the 1991 economic reforms. India was shaking off the dust of its socialist decades and finding its footing in a world suddenly wider and freer.” (3/17/2025)
Essay - “I was born in the 1990s, into one of the countless middle-class Indian families that were sprouting like saplings after the rains, in the wake of the 1991 economic reforms. India was shaking off the dust of its socialist decades and finding its footing in a world suddenly wider and freer.” (3/17/2025)Midwestern Mice in Silk Kimonos: Yuki Tanaka’s “Chronicle of Drifting” Essay - “[Yuki] Tanaka’s singular view, somewhat detached yet not lacking in compassion, soberly reckoning while allowing for flights of optimism, is, again, the product of the angle of vision of the flaneur, the stranger in town, the person who has seen it all but decides not to linger on individual premises too long.” (3/16/2025)
Essay - “[Yuki] Tanaka’s singular view, somewhat detached yet not lacking in compassion, soberly reckoning while allowing for flights of optimism, is, again, the product of the angle of vision of the flaneur, the stranger in town, the person who has seen it all but decides not to linger on individual premises too long.” (3/16/2025)Redefining College: Adapting Higher Education for the 2020s
Op-Ed - “However, if a single mother wants a faster track to employment and signs up for a six-month ‘micro-pathway’ at a local community college to become, for example, a junior data analyst or fiber optics specialist, she will likely have to pay out of pocket.” (3/14/2025)
Op-Ed - “However, if a single mother wants a faster track to employment and signs up for a six-month ‘micro-pathway’ at a local community college to become, for example, a junior data analyst or fiber optics specialist, she will likely have to pay out of pocket.” (3/14/2025)Phantasmal Chaos
Essay - “As geography is transcended, the feverish antipathy between ‘somewheres’ and ‘anywheres’ stands to be sublated…in that, from the standpoint of cyber-space, ‘somewhere’ already means ‘anywhere’.” (3/5/2025)
Essay - “As geography is transcended, the feverish antipathy between ‘somewheres’ and ‘anywheres’ stands to be sublated…in that, from the standpoint of cyber-space, ‘somewhere’ already means ‘anywhere’.” (3/5/2025)Getting to Better American Health Outcomes Essay - “We should think about health inequity not as differences in outcomes across categories of individuals but as structural injustice that harms the health of everyone.” (3/3/2025)
Essay - “We should think about health inequity not as differences in outcomes across categories of individuals but as structural injustice that harms the health of everyone.” (3/3/2025)Language for Throat and Tongue: Elise Paschen’s “Blood Wolf Moon” Essay - “[Elise] Paschen’s writing give new meaning to the term ‘ethnopoetics,’ taking it outside the boundaries of ‘traditional societies,’ ‘the informant,’ and the outsider who goes in to record ‘pre-literate narratives.'” (3/2/2025)
Essay - “[Elise] Paschen’s writing give new meaning to the term ‘ethnopoetics,’ taking it outside the boundaries of ‘traditional societies,’ ‘the informant,’ and the outsider who goes in to record ‘pre-literate narratives.'” (3/2/2025)What Moby Dick Still Teaches Us Essay - “For many who join extremist organizations, it is not the cause that looks for them. Instead, they are looking for a cause.” (2/26/2025)
Essay - “For many who join extremist organizations, it is not the cause that looks for them. Instead, they are looking for a cause.” (2/26/2025)