We’re often told that becoming a parent will alter one’s identity. For me, the change never came.

How to interpret the staying power of a long-shot presidential candidate.

As Raymond Geuss admits in his Reply, having published his initial critique of Habermas in 1981,[i] he no longer followed the work except…

A debate over “privilege” threatens to overshadow the real problem.

Parenthood itself seems poised to become a victim of America’s toxic politics.

In the midst of an existential crisis for higher education, is it even reasonable to expect the humanities to survive?

The Italian philosopher’s interventions are symptomatic of theory’s collapse into paranoia.

In a post yesterday on her evocatively titled Substack, “More to Hate,” the popular feminist philosopher Kate Manne took up “very painful stuff”: Agnes Callard’s […]

A debate over “privilege” threatens to overshadow the real problem.

Anastasia Berg on misogynistic entitlement, feminism, and Kate Manne’s new book.

No one formula can guarantee love and lasting commitment, but “taking it slow” may be a losing strategy.

A quietly incendiary new book reveals why millennials, paralysed by doubt, are struggling to make the leap into parenthood.

Anastasia Berg considers confession and confessors from Saint Augustine to Fyodor Dostoevsky to Phoebe Waller-Bridge's "Fleabag."

We must instead learn how to play a different game: the game of mutual humanization. But how do we know when we are playing that game?

What is now not viable in Hegelian terms is a form of capitalism that works actively to suppress and distort what the requirements of labor, production and trade should have taught us: the depth of a...

The critical tide is turning, once again. The professional critics—and not just the old, curmudgeonly ones—are fed up with moralizing, and they are willing to […]

Ethical prescriptions are implicit in the work of many academics, from literary scholars to economists, but no one is as unabashedly willing to claim moral […]

On Wednesday we learned that Helen Vendler had passed away at the age of ninety. As everyone has pointed out, she was brilliant, respected, rigorous. […]

“I am Margot,” a thousand voices cried. But perhaps after all she is only what we wish we were or could be: beautiful, naïve, faultless.

Anastasia Berg, Ross Douthat, Thomas Chatterton Williams, and Caitlin Zaloom discuss a contested concept.

On affirming life, in all its uncertainty and suffering.

It’s a need that government subsidies and better family policy can’t necessarily address.

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He is the beta narcissist in clinical terms, the male Madame Bovary in literary ones. But in my mind, he is always the longing man.

A world of authentic, post-spin journalism: The dream Jon Stewart spent a decade making real is now America’s waking nightmare. What did he get so wrong?

The Lost Daughter is not only a story about a mother who leaves her children; it’s a story about a mother who leaves her children and returns.

Rothfeld is a two-time finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s Balakian Prize, and her essay “Ladies in Waiting” was a finalist for a National Magazine Award in 2017 and collected in the...

Breaking free without breaking up

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In a recent entry for Forms of Life, Becca Rothfeld criticizes cultural conservatives—Matthew Schmitz, Pedro Gonzalez and Helen Andrews, by name—for arguing, as she takes […]

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Anastasia Berg considers confession and confessors from Saint Augustine to Fyodor Dostoevsky to Phoebe Waller-Bridge's "Fleabag."

Social mobility has stalled, and the public is losing trust. Time for universities to rethink their role in American life?

Last week, Democratic opposition researchers dug up a 2021 interview in which J.D. Vance referred to the people running the country as “childless cat ladies.”