Winter 2025

A good case can be made for calling the last 25 years the Age of Freud, for his thought has reached everywhere, reached especially to a kind of contemporary writing I would like to call—to coin an ungainly phrase—psycho-political prophecy. …

In the past few years the word hypocrisy has been used increasingly in political discussions. The author of a column last year in the New Yorker wondered, for example, whether some good might come of America’s recognition that the Vietnam …