Visions From Jura
What the world looked like to George Orwell during his final days
The Resistance Fighter as Philosopher
Remembering Vladimir Jankélévitch
The Diagnostician of Despair
Why Rousseau believed that Enlightenment values would lead us to ruin
Silent Partner
The union that may have made possible a writer’s late flourishing
Nights at the Opera
Long before he wrote his masterly novels, Stendhal was transformed by the power of music
Iris as Pupil
Before this canonical English writer published novels, she was a student of French postwar philosophy
A State of Perpetual Unease
Sartre’s essay on French anti-Semitism cast the problem in existential terms
Thought Experimenters
Making sense of a broken world
The Decreationist
Simone Weil’s thoughts on the unmaking of the self
Just Imagine
Adam Smith on the faculty that makes us human
