Arts & Letters Daily · Scour

Christian Wiman: “If consciousness precedes matter, it’s a pretty good bet that it survives it”

harpers.org·24w·Hacker News

Leah Libresco Sargeant argues that feminism should recognize “women as women,” not demand they imitate men. What does it mean to treat “women as women”?

washingtonpost.com·24w

“Viewpoint diversity” has become a glib euphemism, a way of smuggling conservatives in through liberalism’s squeaky back door

chronicle.com·24w

Few great visual artists are especially good writers. Eugène Delacroix was one of the exceptions

alicegribbin.com·24w·Hacker News

Peter Singer’s “shallow pond” is less a thought experiment and more an extended gotcha exercise: “Caught you out, didn’t I, you bourgeois oaf”

chronicle.com·24w

Roma Lister, Aradia, and the Speculative Origins of a Witchcraft Revival

publicdomainreview.org·26w·Hacker News, r/Longreads, r/longform

For guidance on 21st century conundrums like polyamory and burnout, turn to the wisdom of 16th century nuns

nytimes.com·25w

Maurizio Cattelan’s Golden Toilet Fails to Make a Splash

hyperallergic.com·25w

Who was the foodie?

yalereview.org·25w·r/Longreads, r/longform

To understand modern individualism, consider late-18th century tea consumption and the engraved portraiture of French revolutionaries

thenation.com·25w

"For a long time now, the signature style of the contemporary art world has been something like real estate aestheticism — growth for growth’s sake"

libertiesjournal.com·25w

Making Sense of Sylvia Plath’s Final Act

hedgehogreview.com·26w

The reactionary radical Paul Kingsnorth fears a future in which the realities of human life — sex, death, environment — are negotiable

theatlantic.com·25w

Robert Louis Stevenson’s Art of Living (and Dying)

lithub.com·26w·Hacker News

William Blake Was a Prescient Critic of Capitalist Alienation

jacobin.com·26w

A decade ago, things changed for the worse at colleges, says Jill Lepore, who looks back with “considerable shame at my unwillingness to really speak out"

chronicle.com·25w

Is the right path a full embrace of AI or a radical set of precautions against its widespread use? Both. Yascha Mounk explains

persuasion.community·25w·Hacker News

Man's Best Friend: Franz Kafka and His Dog

thenation.com·26w·Hacker News

“What matters on a visit to Vegas is how much money you have, how much more you want, and how much you are willing to set on fire”

hedgehogreview.com·26w

When Virginia Woolf met Gertrude Stein: "wheres the harm in this stupidish, kindly, rather amusing woman”

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