Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture

09/19/2025

Join us and Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy (UVA) on Sept 25 as we celebrate executive director James Davison Hunter as he receives the Edwards Book Award for "Democracy and Solidarity: On the Culture Roots of America’s Political Crisis."

Register here: https://events.batten.virginia.edu/Edwards-Book-Award-and-Moderated-Talk/E187917421

08/29/2025

More than even a poet, Nietzsche was a prophet—a jaundiced, nihilistic, and cracked prophet, but a prophet nonetheless. Read our latest web feature, The Man Who Killed God, by Ed Simon.

More than even a poet, Nietzsche was a prophet—a jaundiced, nihilistic, and cracked prophet, but a prophet nonetheless.

08/07/2025

From our latest issue of The Hedgehog Review, Talbot Brewer explores what’s at stake as we hand over our thinking to AI tools like ChatGPT and what happens if we forget how to truly think. Read "The Word Made Lifeless."

The development of AI reads less like a familiar chapter from the history of consumer capitalism and more like the storyboard of a Bond film in which we’ve all been cast as extras.