The Hedgehog Review – Spring 2026 Preview

Humanism in a Posthumanist Age

THE HEDGEHOG REVIEW: The latest issue features ‘Humanism in a Posthumanist Age’ – What we are witnessing today is a cultural swerve away from the informing humanist idealism of the modern liberal democratic project.

Will Human Voices Wake Us?

Antón Barba-Kay

How Antihumanism Turned on Its Authors

Geoff Shullenberger

The Human Condition or the Conditional Human?

David Polansky

Up from Darkness

Alan Jacobs

Essays

The Buried Tombstone, the Melting Iceberg, and the Random Bullet

R.F. Foster

A Matter of Time

Witold Rybczynski

Managing the Facts of Life

Sarah M. Brownsberger

We’ve Been Getting the Ancient Greeks All Wrong

Colin Wells

The Consolations of Simulation

Paul Nedelisky

THE NEW YORK TIMES – FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2026

The U.S. Birthrate Is Plunging. Here’s Why Some Say That’s a Good Thing.

The political class is worried about the historic drop. But the biggest change is among the youngest women, who are the least ready to have children.

Trump’s Foreign Policy: Resurrecting Empire

President Trump’s approach is a revival of the mission of empire — acquiring the territories and resources of sovereign peoples.

In Trump’s Case for War With Iran, a Series of False or Unproven Claims

Key elements of the Trump administration’s arguments this week for another military campaign against Iran do not hold up.

A Call From Trump Ignited a Bitter Feud Between Two U.S. Allies

A request made to President Trump about the war in Sudan is at the heart of a diplomatic dispute between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.