Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic famously seeks out what he terms a “spirit of capitalism” in the development of “duty in a calling.” For Weber, the peculiarly unfulfilling experience of…
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Contemporaries Essays
My Struggle, vol. 6: Dan, January 4
Greenpoint, NY Dear friends, It is, he claims—all of it—a marriage fight. Call it marital realism, a demon released by the couple form. Call it a gaslight novel. Linda projected…
Contemporaries Essays
My Struggle, vol. 6: Omari, January 2
Toronto, Ontario, Canada It does no good to write autobiographical fiction cause the minute the book hits the stand here comes your mama screamin how could you and sighin death…
Contemporaries Essays, Interviews
Contemporaries Essays
Intergenerational Feminist: A Conversation with Jamia Wilson
Jamia Wilson began her career as a nonprofit leader by doing campus outreach and action-fund coordination for Planned Parenthood. She has since served as Vice President of Programs at the…
Contemporaries Essays
Itinerant Feminist: A Conversation with Jennifer Baumgardner
Starting as an intern at Ms. magazine in 1993, Jennifer Baumgardner became the youngest editor in the magazine’s history in 1997. She left in 1998, working since as a prolific activist, filmmaker, public…
Contemporaries Essays
My Struggle, vol. 6: Marit MacArthur, December 6
Davis, California Dear interlocutors, Fecal transplants are the future. I appreciated the figurative spirit of Jacob’s riff on Knausgaard’s shit, if not the substance. But yeah, I would argue that…
Contemporaries Essays
My Struggle, vol. 6: Cecily, December 4
Princeton, New Jersey Dear friends, Two disclaimers: I gave birth to my second child one month ago and I have not yet read the Hitler section of Book 6. Note…
Contemporaries Essays
My Struggle, vol. 6: Jacob Brogan, November 29
Washington, DC Dear friends, Near the end of the very dull book that we have all been discussing together there is a scene in which Karl Ove Knausgaard spends several…