It’s over – An und für sich
When Elon Musk first bought Twitter, I intended to wean myself off of it. That proved more difficult than I anticipated. Twitter replacements such as Mastodon and Bluesky were poor substitutes, esp…| An und für sich
When Elon Musk first bought Twitter, I intended to wean myself off of it. That proved more difficult than I anticipated. Twitter replacements such as Mastodon and Bluesky were poor substitutes, esp…| An und für sich
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[I delivered this paper at the conference “Figuring the Enemy” at St. Andrews University, June 6-8. Thank you to Scott Kirkland for the invitation!] In this paper, I want to draw a comp…| An und für sich
On the fading power of the now| beatricemarovich.substack.com
After the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, an already existential election is now even more fraught| www.ft.com
Once on Twitter, I mentioned that my lifetime had seen a world-historical calamity roughly once a decade: the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980, the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, the one-two pu…| An und für sich
I allowed myself a more restful summer than usual. I didn’t have any major writing projects, and I broke with my usual neurotic approach to class prep and largely left it aside for most of th…| An und für sich
This summer I have been working on an article comparing Paul and the Qur’an, which will build upon a conference presentation I gave last year on the same topic. In many ways, despite the fact…| An und für sich
In the wake of the attempted assassination of Trump, a common trope has reemerged: that of martyrdom. In the Financial Times, for example, Edward Luce opined, “It is not just Donald Trump who…| An und für sich
The last decade or so has been marked by a global resurgence of the extreme right. Its most prominent avatars in the West are the Brexit campaign and the Trump phenomenon, while various right-wing …| An und für sich
Beatrice has a great post up today about what she calls the “theology of the now.” By this, she means the kind of rhetoric encapsulated in a well-known Flaming Lips song from around the…| An und für sich
A few years ago, I was part of an event commemorating Milton Friedman’s Capitalism and Freedom. Obviously, I was brought in to represent the “against” position (and you can read a…| An und für sich
It’s been almost a year since I officially quit Twitter. Since then, I have been making do with Bluesky, which is basically a Twitter clone that is not directly owned by Elon Musk. Users of B…| An und für sich
One of the most rewarding side-effects of my teaching in the Shimer Great Books School has been the exploration of art that it prompted. I’ve written here before about how my teaching of the …| An und für sich
