Contemporary society
- Why culture wars are an élite device’
- ‘Critical Theory and the Newest Left’
- ‘Speaking Power to Truth’
- ‘The Facebook loophole that lets world leaders deceive and harrass their citizens’
- ‘Making sense of conspiracy theorists as the world gets more bizarre’
- ‘Beware of Books’
- ‘A Tyranny without Tyrants?’ (review of Michael Sandel’s Tyranny of Merit)
- ‘It’s All just Beginning’
- ‘A Letter on Justice and Open Debate’
Intellectual history
- ‘Das Ich, das viel besagt’ (review of philosopher Dieter Henrich’s autobiography)
- ‘The Symbolic Animal’ (on Ernst Cassirer)
- ‘A Happy Contrarian’ (on René Girard)
- ‘Mary, Quite Contrary’ (review of Sylvana Tomaselli’s new study of Mary Wollstonecraft)
Obituaries of scholars and artists I admire
- Jean-Paul Belmondo (actor, September 2021)
- Roberto Calasso (writer and publisher, July 2021)
- Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano, April 2021)
- Vartan Gregorian (scholar and former president of the New York Public Library, April 2021)
- Marc Fumaroli (scholar, June 2020)
- Mirella Freni (soprano, February 2020)
- Jessye Norman (soprano, October 2019)
