With the final days of the waning year upon us, we have been looking back on what we've published in 2022: the often poignant, sometimes humorous, and always searching explorations of our cultural experiences and predicaments. There are many pieces to revisit, but here we collect a handful of essays that make for worthwhile re-reading—all out from the paywall. From all of us at The Hedgehog Review: We wish you a happy and joyful new year.

Worth a Second Look

"The Impotence of Being Clever" by Alexander Stern.
David Stromberg on the trail of the Wandering Jew and the meaning of the Jewish Question.
"Past Lives of the Paragraph" by Richard Hughes Gibson.
Kirsten Sanders on what Evangelicalism means in the history of American religion.
"Whataboutism" by B.D. McClay.
Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen on what Nietzsche can teach us about the limits of history.
"The First Authoritarian: Popper's Plato" by Tae-Yeoun Keum.
Ryan Kemp rereads Søren Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling.
"Democracy Disrupted: Governance in an Increasingly Virtual and Massively Distributed World" by Eric B. Schnurer.
Phil Christman considers the myth of Small-Town USA.
"Injured Parties: Considering the Wider Effects of Harmful Speech" by Alan Jacobs.

Hedgehog Noontime Event

We have an exciting opportunity for the THR intellectual community. Join us on Thursday, January 5 at 12 pm EST for a Hedgehog Noontime Event featuring a lecture livestreamed from Rome, "On Democratic Decay," by philosopher Charles Taylor. The event, co-sponsored by the Institute and organized by THR contributing editor Jonathan Teubner, is presented by the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University's Institute for Quantitative Social Science and by Australian Catholic University's Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry.

Please register for Zoom webinar now.