During this time of plague, when a pestilence coughed up (presumably) from the wet markets and potlucks of Wuhan now hangs in our very air, mundane and banausic concerns naturally come to the fore. Finding a way to quarantine oneself…
The late Gertrude Himmelfarb, in her 1994 essay “On Looking into the Abyss,” needed only two sentences to diagnose the intellectual ills of our dehumanized age. “The beasts of modernism,” she wrote, “have mutated into the beasts of postmodernism —…
Sacramento If you’re ever walking around the Mid-Market area of downtown San Francisco and take your gaze off the ground (where you’re probably trying to navigate around homeless people’s poop piles), you’ll be stunned by a hulking, 18-story monstrosity that…
When President Donald Trump described the Washington, D.C. headquarters of the Federal Bureau of Investigation as “terrible” and “one of the ugliest buildings in the city,” as he reportedly did in the mid-summer of 2018, one could be forgiven for…