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Tis the season to detach yourself from the news cycle and look for bigger trends and the deeper human stories from 2022. And so every year the Sidney Awards, which I created in honor of the late great philosopher Sidney Hook, are here to help you take that step back.

David Brooks honors some of the year’s best essays.

In novels, essays and literary criticism, she wrote about women trapped in repressive families or disintegrating marriages. She also wrote six memoirs.

To understand today’s political battles, you need to know how they began.

Five easy steps to becoming well-read.

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

Sidney Hook* briefly emblazoned the Marxist heavens like a revolutionary nova, only to end his political career as a menacing black hole, through which neither the illuminating vision of a socialist alternative nor the heat of insurgency's passion would ever more emerge. Unlike, say, Max Shachtman, who virtually lost the capacity to write, when to do so would have meant justifying the ideological repudiation of the work and commitment of a lifetime, Hook is remembered chiefly by the blighte...

Higher education has a huge part to play in promoting democracy in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine – and tolerance is the starting point

Some great essays from a shapeless year.

The moral corruption of many left-wing intellectuals shows itself in verbal ferocity, exhortations to violence, demonization of opponents, and lack of respect for the dignity of individuals