Wright's Writing

[Some notes I took a while ago. They may be kind of obvious, but I think it’s interesting to adopt something like Hegel’s perspective on...

Reading The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin (2011), by Corey Robin. An elegant and erudite elaboration of...

[This is another book-excerpt, a negatively charged one this time.] Nietzsche’s self-appointed task of “revaluating values” isn’t...

Albert Camus: “We [moderns] read more than we meditate. We have no philosophies but merely commentaries. This is what Étienne Gilson...

[The following is an excerpt from this book.] In order to determine someone’s intellectual or artistic integrity and acuity, a simple...

Part 2 of "Thoughts on the 70th anniversary of the end of the Holocaust." Part 1 is here.— While the industrialized murder of six million...

Karl Marx once said, “After all, we can forgive Christianity much because it taught us to love children.” Almost unbelievably, the...

One of the many ironies about contemporary Christians is that they tend to be supportive of capitalism. This isn’t surprising: from the...

[A book excerpt.] The best way to think about the human task of living is that it should be, as Nietzsche said, a continual journey of...

No reasonable person would deny that pop culture is a vulgar, artificial, debased and debasing thing. Does this mean that “the...

If intellectual curiosity means the desire to learn new things, encounter new ideas, explore and explain the world, then “intellectuals”...

The elite has the money, but the workers have the dignity. The elite consumes; the workers produce. Future ages always forget the past...

[Excerpt from a book.] The psychoanalyst D. W. Winnicott said it simply—one of those simple but profound truths worth remembering: “It is...