THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features ‘Fall Books’…

Wishing It So

As AI erodes our attention spans and expressiveness, philosophers like Simone Weil and Arthur Schopenhauer offer profound insights on what it means to be an individual.

Looking Class

Timely questions lurk at the heart of connoisseurship: What counts as originality, what value do we place on it, how do we protect it?

The Connoisseur: A Cultural History by Peter Burke

The Goldsmith’s Debt: Conceptions of Property in Early Modern Art by Shira Brisman

The Dartmouth Exception

Among its peers in the Ivy League, Dartmouth was perfectly positioned to resist Trump’s attack on higher education. It chose not to.

Is Morality Universal?

In The Diversity of Morals, Steven Lukes attempts to reconcile philosophical arguments that there is one morality despite cultural differences with empirical studies that suggest it’s all relative.

The Diversity of Morals by Steven Lukes