We don’t use the word “liberalism” here at Current, but we do care about American institutions, democratic life, the ideals of the founding (consistently applied to all Americans), the positive contribution religion (including evangelicalism) can make to American culture, and...
Leon Wieseltier
Leon Wieseltier is the Latest Victim of the “Harvey Effect”
One of the nation’s leading public intellectuals is the latest. Here is a taste of Adrienne LaFrance’s piece at The Atlantic: The spell of sexual harassment accusations against powerful men in Hollywood and media intensified on Tuesday with allegations of “workplace...
Do We Live in a Culture of Worthless Praise?
Leon Wieseltier, a public intellectual and literary editor at The New Republic, thinks that we do. Check out Malcolm Thorndike Nicholson’s interview with Wieseltier at Prospect. Here is a taste: So what do you think are some of these “central...