The Hedgehog Review
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Making sense of cultural change in the modern world from UVA’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture.
New online: my essay on Italian psychiatrist and polymath Roberto Assagioli's conviction that "we suffer from a repression of the sublime." hedgehogreview.com/web-features... via @hedgehogreview.bsky.social #psychology #poetry #meditation #spirituality
Out from the paywall: Phil Christman writes on what it means for a town to be pervaded by a college. hedgehogreview.com/issues/place...
A Tale of Two College Towns
The public university and the small-town college are the best and worst of higher education options.
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One-third of teens now bond with chatbots, some nudging users toward self-harm. Drawing on Augustine and Spaemann, this piece argues we belong when we know ourselves already known and loved—something churches can offer. By Jonathan Teubner in @hedgehogreview.bsky.social
Chatbots and the Divine
We get nowhere near knowing, much less loving, another person through impersonal means.
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Join us on Monday for a Noontime Discussion on a right-wing cultural revolution, with Tara Isabella Burton and @perioikos.bsky.social. Register here: virginia.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
New online: Our crisis of loneliness may be less about social connectivity than about the loss of a primordial relatedness, writes Jonathan Teubner. hedgehogreview.com/web-features...
Our society needs a certain kind of person, and our society shapes a certain kind of person. The challenge for us often lies in aligning the two, writes Yuval Levin. hedgehogreview.com/web-features...
Liberal Society Isn’t for Everyone
Our society needs a certain kind of person and our society shapes a certain kind of person. How to align the two?
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New online: The freedom, equality, prosperity, and sheer manic energy of a liberal society tend to make us forgetful of republican virtues, even though all those things depend on them, writes Yuval Levin. hedgehogreview.com/web-features...
New online: A new rule introducing robot umpires adds to the disenchantment of baseball, writes @perioikos.bsky.social. hedgehogreview.com/web-features...
UFOs exist. On that we can all agree. The question is not whether they are but what they are, writes Brad East. hedgehogreview.com/issues/lesso...
Lexicon of the Phenomenon
Signs and wonders have occurred in human history, and they continue to do so.
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Gary Saul Morson addresses the frequent claim that Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky’s translations of works of classic Russian literature are more accurate than all others. hedgehogreview.com/issues/lesso...
A Question of Purpose
One must translate the work, not the words on the page. They are not the same.
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Most of us live the important parts of our lives not in town halls and public forums but in the aisles of supermarkets, among the friends we elect to cultivate, or in the mazes of online opinion bazaars. We have individualized choice. hedgehogreview.com/issues/lesso...
From our latest issue: Richard Hughes Gibson on Umberto Eco's sophisticated mockery of early machine translation. hedgehogreview.com/issues/lesso...
After Babel Fish
More communication is not necessarily better communication.
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