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Collected Essays of Craig Mod
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A few weeks ago, the Scottish American philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre died, aged 96. His best known work, After Virtue , is an extraordinary book. Despite its considerable impact over the past few decades (it was published in 1981), it still reads as a startlingly original, radical critique of modern society, and of moral philosophy itself. Essenti... See more
Practice and Virtue
One thinks of Amit Majmudar, Christian Wiman, Tracy K. Smith, Ryan Wilson, and many others. These poets are only rarely published in prestigious publications (or, at least, publications with a prestigious legacy), and the group that should be the biggest supporter of these poets—conservatives—has tended to ignore poetry and the arts. When conserv... See more
Micah Mattix • The Integrity of Poetry | Micah Mattix
The theater’s rich intellectual inheritance serves as a buffer to society’s recrudescent stupidity. Upholding this legacy seems a more vital role for a critic than operating as a tour guide of commercial entertainments. The survival of our democracy depends on the recovery of our critical thinking skills.
In the past, when I’ve made the case for cri... See more
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Charles McNulty • In defense of criticism: A theater critic asks what good does it do in an upside-down world
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Joan Didion • After Henry: Essays
The charge of hypocrisy against Seneca is generally dismissed fairly quickly by modern scholars, who tend to regard it as implying a simplistic and even anachronistic set of expectations about how life ought to relate to literary work, and also about what it is to be a consistent person. 7 But such dismissals often go too fast and sometimes imply a
... See moreEmily Wilson • The Greatest Empire: A Life of Seneca
he had offended the daily critics in the book by referring to the New York crowd as “angleworms in a bottle” and to critics as the lice that crawl on literature;