Omnivore
The puzzle of moral science
Kieran Setiya (MIT): Must Consequentialists Kill? Eva Erman (Stockholm) and Niklas Moller (KTH): The Interdependence of Risk and Moral Theory. Ivar R. Hannikainen (PUC-Rio), Edouard Machery (Pitt), and Fiery A. Cushman (Harvard): Is Utilitarian Sacrifice Becoming More Morally Permissible? Michael Davis (IIT): How Applied Should Applied Ethics Be? Samuel Kahn (IUPUI): Kant and the Duty to Promote One’s Own Happiness. Paul Diduch reviews The Socratic Turn: Knowledge of Good and Evil in an Age of
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Paper Trail
V.S. Naipaul—the Trinidad-born author who went on to become one of the most evocative portrayers of postcolonial life, winning the Nobel Prize for literature in 2001—has died at age eighty-five. Amitava Kumar ponders Naipaul’s complicated legacy. At the New Republic, Jeet Heer remembers the “towering writer and deeply flawed man.” Stephen King inspired a “meme …Syllabi
The Roots of the Alt-right
Mike WendlingDuring the last presidential election cycle, you may have read reports describing the alt-right—a loosely organized group of anti-PC, anti-feminist, race-obsessed online warriors—as a strange, newly …- Marriage Reimagined Laura Smith
- "We Are Revolution": Introducing Asia's Proletarian Lit Matt Turner
Daily Review
Flights
Airplane food is a subject of little glory, normally fodder for comedy routines and small talk. But acclaimed Polish author Olga Tokarczuk’s novel Flights takes it, and the other small indignities of travel, as a matter of deep philosophical importance. Flights, which … 
- Come and Take It: The Gun Printer’s Guide to Thinking Free
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Interviews
Chelsea Hodson
In the autobiographical essays that make up her debut collection, Tonight I’m Someone Else, Chelsea Hodson examines the chaotic and bewildering experience of being an American woman and artist. At first glance, some essays resemble a well-curated Twitter feed— like the single-line, stream-of-consciousness observations found in “The End of Longing”—but Hodson offers much more than aphoristic quips: She delves deeply into themes such as longing, desire, performance, and voyeurism.
…- FAYE HAS JUST BOARDED an airplane when Kudos, the third novel in a trilogy about her …
- At some point after 1986, when he arrived in the United States, Amitava Kumar discovered …
- Entirely pristine in its styling, Ottessa Moshfegh’s fourth book, My Year of Rest and …
- ANACHRONISM WAS THE RULE at the political conventions of the summer of 1968. It was …
- STANLEY KUBRICK’S 2001: A Space Odyssey was not a flop when it came out. It was a big …
Reviews
Excerpt
The Man Without a Nation
Amitava Kumar
The one activity that was perhaps the most stable part of my identity that first semester was the seminar I was taking with Ehsaan Ali. His class Colonial Encounters was held on Friday afternoons. The seminar participants required his special permission to join.
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