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The Decline of the Imperial Aesthetic
The Plattenbau, being the remnant of an overcome social order, encapsulates the anachronism that is mid-century modernism.
The Amazon HQ2 Scramble: The Wrong Kind of Jurisdictional Competition
Cities shouldn't hesitate to enact pro-growth policies, but the Amazon HQ2 scramble was a sham from the start.
The New Liberum Veto
While Poland-Lithuania vanished long ago, its liberum veto has found new life in the urban centers of California.
Invoking Liberation: A Review of Provocations
Camille Paglia's latest book, a compilation of her own work, carries an air of finality.
Media Bias and the Mob
What structural anthropology can tell us about the polarized press.
Epistemology at Scale
The campaign against Brett Kavanaugh was the perfect crime: smuggling empathetic truths into a situation too universal for empathy.
My Friend Karl: A Review of My Struggle: Book Six
Karl Ove Knausgaard is moved by myth and tradition in a way that betrays his calculated political apathy.
Whigged Out
Technology will determine the politics of the future. This invites a return to impersonal readings of history.
