Introduction: Habits of Mind

1. Narrative Morality: On Philosophically Therapeutic Criticism

2. Playing Games: Infinite Jest as Philosophical Therapy

3. So Decide: Brief Interviews with Hideous Men as Philosophical Criticism

4. Untrendy Problems: The Pale King’s Philosophical Inspirations

Conclusion: In Heaven and Earth

On The Point

by Jon Baskin

Tired of Winning

D.C. think tanks, NYC magazines & the search for public intellect by Jon Baskin

so good. nice mix of personal + broader leftist history

On the End

by Jon Baskin

Friends Like These

by Jon Baskin

While Gopnik’s liberal commitment to openness may enjoin him to give the criticisms of liberalism a fair hearing, what never seems to occur to him is what Trilling felt viscerally: that the criticisms of liberalism could be true.

reviews: Enlightened

by Jon Baskin