Modern And Equal

The Most Modern Thing You Own

Michael Diaz-Griffith | World Of Interiors | 14th July 2026

The Art Deco relics of the 1920s are not “antique in the way we used to mean”. “In 1925, it was possible to conjure a material world that sublimated the conflict between the machine and the hand, ancient craft and modern industry pressed alike into service of how we might live. We’ve given up on that fantasy. Our rooms are from the archival past or resigned present, but they fail to imagine new futures” (1,400 words)

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The Moral Logic Of Equality

Michael Burlingame | American Mind | 10th July 2026

How Lincoln understood the phrase ‘all men are created equal’. Social and economic mobility was, to him, a distinctive feature of American democracy and he frequently cited his own life as an example of it. “When one starts poor, as most do in the race of life, free society is such that he knows he can better his condition; he knows that there is no fixed condition of labour, for his whole life” (2,600 words)