Counterforces and Other Little Jokes

I wrote this as a friends-only post for Facebook, the method I typically use to address a large but quite specific audience. Circumstances...

Olafur Eliasson’s “I Grew Up in Solitude and Silence” is a simple work of art that, like so many simple works of art, reveals more about t...

. These vintage photographs of City Lights Bookshop, Grace Cathedral (both in San Francisco) and the house in which Jack Kerouac died are ...

Sometimes the three-week limit imposed by gallery schedules results in remarkable injustices. Benjamin Britton’s “Desire, broadly,” which c...

Several writers have suggested that today’s America is trapped in an “epistemic crisis.” What the writers mean is that America is divided i...

Hegel famously wrote regarding philosophical reflection, “When philosophy paints its gray in gray, then has a form of life grown old. Philo...

The Age of Earthquakes: A Guide to the Extreme Present slipped into the global dialogue nearly a year ago now without much notice, in spite...