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Selected publications available online:
Romanias
Kafka, in Times Literary Supplement
(17 February 2023)
A Socrates gone
insane, in Times Literary Supplement
(27 January 2023)
How
to Swim against the Stream. On Diogenes, in Los Angeles Review of Books
(14
January 2023) (Also available in Chinese)
Christ
at the Assembly Line, in Commonweal
Magazine (January 2023)
How
sacrifice lost its significance, in UnHerd (3 January 2023)
What
Lies at the Heart of the American Dream, in New York Times (2
January 2023) (Also available in Chinese,
Hebrew)
Power has
poisoned academia, in UnHerd
(21 December 2022)
The
Herd in the Head, in Aeon (13
December 2022) (Also available in Chinese, Spanish, Hebrew)
Censors
sensibility, in Times Literary Supplement
(18 November 2022) (Also available
in Chinese)
Onward
Christian Emperors, in Literary Review (2 November 2022)
Two
Sides of Dignity, in Commonweal
Magazine (22 October 2022) (Also available in Chinese)
Whats
behind a successful academic hoax?, in The New Statesman (25 August
2022) (Also available in Chinese)
The Only Way to
Stand It, in Commonweal
Magazine (27 April 2022) (Also available in Chinese)
The dark heart of
Russia, in UnHerd
(14 March 2022) (Also available in Chinese, Albanian)
How
Thomas Mann escaped to America and waged a moral battle against Hitler, in
Washington Post
(18 February 2022) (Also available in Portuguese)
Faust
in Romania. The drama of a country that cant find its soul, in Times
Literary Supplement (4 February 2022)
Privilege
is the New Original Sin, in UnHerd (17 November 2021)
Bishop,
Empiricist, and Weirdo, in Times Literary Supplement (24
September 2021) (Also available in Chinese)
Utopian
Nightmares, in Times Literary Supplement (9
July 2021)
A
Happy Contrarian, in Commonweal
Magazine (25 February 2021) (Also available in Chinese)
The
Plot and the Argument. Philosophy as a Narrative Affair, in Los Angeles Review of Books
(15
November 2020) (Also available in Chinese, Farsi, Portuguese)
The
fox and the hedgehog. Polymathys past and future, in Times Literary Supplement (2
October 2020) (Also available in French,
Chinese, Farsi)
Sailing
without Ballast, in Commonweal
Magazine (28 September 2020) (Also available in Chinese)
A
Soft Spot for Atheism, in Commonweal
Magazine (29 May 2020) (Also available in Chinese, Spanish)
Always
Narrating. The Making and Unmaking of Umberto Eco, in Los Angeles Review of Books
(9 March 2020) (Also available in Chinese, Italian,
Farsi, Farsi, Russian)
Show
of faith in the unbelievers in The Australian (24 January 2020)
Tales
of an existential croucher, in Times Literary Supplement (22
November 2019) (Also available in Chinese)
Inescapable
Influence, in Commonweal
Magazine (24 September 2019)
It
Began in a Manger [Review of Dominion, by Tom Holland], in Literary
Review (September 2019)
Democracy is for the Gods,
in New York Times, 5 July 2019 (Also
available in Chinese, Vietnamese, Italian, Romanian, Czech, Hebrew, Burmese, Danish, Greek, Turkish, Farsi, Portuguese, Romanian, Thai, Croatian)
"The Gifts of Humility,"
in Los Angeles Review of Books, 16 December 2018 (Also available
in Chinese, Farsi, Romanian, Turkish,
Macedonian)
How different really are atheists
and believers? [Review of Seven Types of Atheism, by John Gray],
in Washington Post, 16 November 2018.
Laughing More Loudly,
in Times Literary Supplement, No. 6017 (27 July 2018)
"Are We Doomed to Fail?"
in Philosophy for Our Times, 12
January 2018
"Philosophy Needs a New
Definition," in Los Angeles Review of Books, 17 December, 2017 (Also available
in Chinese, Turkish, Farsi, Italian)
"Why We Fail and How,"
in Los Angeles Review of Books, 24 September 2017 (Also available
in Chinese, Vietnamese, Romanian,
Spanish,
Italian)
Philosophy Has a Lot to Learn
from Film, in Aeon, 3 July 2017 (Also available
in Vietnamese, Chinese, Farsi, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Russian)
Our Delight in Destruction,
in New York Times, 27 March 2017 (Also available in Vietnamese, Farsi)
The Philosopher of Failure,
in Los Angeles Review of Books, 28 November 2016
(Also in Spanish, Chinese, Turkish, Arabic)
"Why do anything?,"
in New York Times, 17
September 2016 (Also available in Chinese, Turkish, Serbian, Vietnamese, Portuguese,
Farsi)
"Everyone fails, but only the
wise find humility," in Aeon, 18 August 2016 (Also available in Arabic, Hebrew)
"A Continental Mind"
[Review of The Idea of
Europe, by George Steiner], in Spiked Review (May 2016) (Also
available in Chinese)
Existentialism and Sartre captured
spirit of the times [Review of The
Existentialist Moment, by Patrick Baert], in The Australian, 20 February 2016.
"Body of Work: The Dying
Philosopher," in Los Angeles Review of Books, 27 September 2015.
(with Robert Zaretsky),
"The Idea of Europe,"
in Los Angeles Review of Books, 12 August 2015 (Also available in German)
Change Comes From the Margins,
in New York Times, 30 June 2015 (Also available in Vietnamese)
"Why People are Willing to Die
for an Idea," in Washington Post, 18 June 2015 (Also available in Chinese, Hebrew)
"Dada Life"
[Review of TaTa Dada, by Marius Hentea],
in Times Literary Supplement, 22
May 2015 (Reprint
in The Wall Street Journal).
"Philosophy as a Bloody Affair,"
in The European Magazine, 18 May 2015 (Also available in Hungarian, Chinese, Farsi)
"In Defense of Margins,"
in Los Angeles Review of Books, 9 May 2015 (Also available in Turkish)
"The Wisdom of the Exile,"
in New York Times, 16 August 2014 (Also available in Vietnamese)
"The Two Abysses of the Soul,"
in Los Angeles Review of Books, 31 July 2014 (Also available in Portuguese, Italian, Romanian).
"I survived the Nazis. And
Soviets" [Review
of The Hooligan's Return,
by Norman Manea], in The Daily Beast,
6 April 2014 (Also available in Kurdish).
Herta Mόllers Language of
Resistance, in Boston Review, 18 March 2014 (Also available in Spanish, Kurdish)
"In Praise of Failure,"
in New York Times, 15 December 2013 (Also available in Chinese, Portuguese, Italian, Arabic, German, Farsi).
Oh, the Delight [Review of The
Walls Behind the Curtain: East European Prison Literature, 1945-1990, by Harold B Segel,
Ed.], in Times Literary Supplement, No. 576 (6 September 2013).
"Born Again in a Second
Language," in New York Times, 4 August 2013 (Also available in German, Spanish, Chinese, Kurdish, Farsi)
Penetrating Philosopher Loves
a Paradox [Review of The Faith of the Faithless: Experiments in
Political Philosophy, by
Simon Critchley], in The Australian, 4 May 2013.
"Sublime and not too serious" [Review of Internationala mea. Cronica unei vieti, by Ion Ianosi], in Times Literary Supplement, No. 5736 (8 March 2013), p. 27. (Also available in Romanian)
"Half-lives in the Shadow of
Starvation" [Review of The Hunger Angel, by Herta Mόller], in The Australian, 1 February 2013
(Also available in Kurdish)
"Philosophy as an Art of Living," in Los Angeles Review of Books,
14 February 2012 (Also available in Farsi)
"The Political Psychology of
Self-Immolation," in The New Statesman, 17 September 2012 (Also available
in Spanish)
Snail in Babel [Review-essay on The
Lair & The Fifth Impossibility. Essays on Exile and Language,
both by Norman Manea], in Times Literary
Supplement, No. 5709 (31 August 2012)
Review of Introduction to Antiphilosophy, by Boris Groys, in Times Higher Education, 26 July 2012
"The Politics of Tibetan
Self-Immolations," on CNN.com
(CNN Opinion), 28 March 2012
"Caught in Quarrels with God"
[Review of The Terror of God,
by Navid Kermani], in The Australian, 25 February 2012.
Review of Anti-Nietzsche, by Malcolm Bull, in Times Higher Education, 19 January 2012
"Scaling the 'Wall in the Head',"
in
New York Times, 27 November 2011 (Also available in Spanish, Portuguese, Farsi).
Review of American Nietzsche. A History
of An Icon and His Ideas, by Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen,
in Times Higher Education, 3 November 2011.
"Philosophy As an Art of Dying," in New York Times, 12 June 2011
(Also available in Spanish).
"A Light for the Future:
On the Political Uses of a Dying Body," in Dissent,
23 May 2011 (Also available in Hungarian).
"Ladri di Parole,"
in Lettera43 (Quotidiano
Online Indipendente), 7 March 2011 [in Italian] (Also
available in Romanian)
"Why Bouazizi burning set Arab
world afire" [op-ed piece], The Christian Science Monitor, 8 February 2011
"Uprising in Tunisia: a
political act of self-immolation" [op-ed piece], in The Globe & Mail, 31 January 2011
"Quixotic Being"
[Review of Six Maladies of the Contemporary Spirit by
Constantin Noica], in Times Literary Supplement, No 5621 (24 December 2010), p. 36.
Review of
Occurrence in the Immediate Reality by Max Blecher,
in Times Literary Supplement, No. 5601 (6 August 2010), p. 26.
"The Evil of Banality"
[Review of The Appointment, by Herta Mόller],
in The Globe & Mail (13 February
2010)
"In
Shambles" [Review of Searching for Cioran, by Ilinca
Zarifopol-Johnston], in Times Literary Supplement,
No. 5558 (9 October 2009), p. 9.
"Fascinating Life of a Philosopher Martyr" [Review of Giordano Bruno. Philosopher/Heretic, by Ingrid Rowland], in The Philadelphia Inquirer, February 15 2009.