Pathways
Each month we keep track of the different paths modern life is taking and how writers are keeping up. Here are some routes we found in April that opened new vistas on what it means to be modern and how we became that way.
Get this my contemporaries! The other night I am jamming on my lute… The New Yorker
Pro-science? Anti-science? How about anti-anti-anti-science? LA Review of Books
The modern philosopher we need was a poet. Aeon
You know all that college debt? There is an intellectual genealogy lurking behind it. The Chronicle of Higher Education
Want to shape history? Create an anthology or even better a “counterfactual anthology.” The New Criterion
We live in the age of fitness because we live under the dominance of late capitalism. The New Statesman
We have been imagining artificial life for a lot longer than you think. Lapham's Quarterly
Shakespeare: ever ancient, ever new. Check out some great film adaptations of the Bard. The Spectator