‘A Sense Sublime’ An interview with Charles Taylor ALEXANDER STERN Charles Taylor is professor emeritus in the department of philosophy at McGill University. Educated at McGill and Oxford,...
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Maps of Meaning ALEXANDER STERN Ideology is “like halitosis”: it’s “what the other person has.” So writes Terry Eagleton in his book Ideology: An Introduction. The Bernie bro thinks the tech bro...
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ALEXANDER STERN Do We
Have To? Apple’s Vision Pro portends a dark future When I described using the new Apple Vision Pro virtual-reality headset to my mother, she said, “Maybe they come...
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Biden & Bibi During the 2020 presidential race, Joe Biden drew a number of explicit contrasts with his predecessor over Iran. He bemoaned Trump’s withdrawal from the Obama...
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ALEXANDER STERN An Anatomy Lesson The trailer for the classic 1959 legal thriller Anatomy of a Murder is strange. It opens not with scenes from the movie but in a courtroom, where a bailiff...
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Stefanik’s Stunt As a brief ceasefire ended in Gaza and Israeli forces escalated attacks that have killed nearly twenty thousand Palestinians—most of them civilians—the war has...
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ARTICLE Centrist Illusions Alexander Stern How not to defend liberalism Liberal democracy, we are told, is under attack. On op-ed pages and cable news panels, at university conferences and...
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ALEXANDER STERN On the Clock ‘Unrest’ Given their similar spellings, a young student might be forgiven for confusing the words “anarchism” and “anachronism.” The concepts named by each term, on...
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is not the first time a rail company has sought to maximize profits at the expense of workers and communities. In the name of greater efficiency, railroads have in recent years slashed staff and...
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FILM ALEXANDER STERN Trapped in the Aura ‘White Noise’ Professor Jack Gladney, the narrator of Don DeLillo’s 1985 novel, White Noise, yearns for stasis. “Let’s enjoy these aimless days while...
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SHORT TAKES ALEXANDER STERN Escaping the Algorithms The question concerning AI In recent months, artificial intelligence developers have released tools to the general public that have...
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