“A mental pentathlete.” That’s how Joyelle McSweeney describes the genre-defying Canadian writer Anne Carson—the winner of ...

We judge our enemies by their actions and our allies by their intentions. The moral lapses of our enemies: hypocrisies. The moral lapses of our allies: errors. Their compromises: stupid, probably evil ...

An anecdote at the end of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s We Were Eight Years in Power (2017) neatly condenses the felt contradictions of Barack Obama’s legacy. In early 2016, as Black Lives Matter was growing ...

Older people, we often hear, have too much power. They are hoarding homes, money, and jobs to the detriment of younger people who can’t get their lives started. They are hoarding political power as ...

“The personal is political” was a reality for me long before it became the mantra of Second Wave feminism in the United States. In 1951, when I was ten years old, my father, Samuel Wallach, a New York ...

In 2013 Charles Murray traveled to the Galápagos Islands to deliver an address to the Mont Pelerin Society—that font of neoliberalism, founded in 1947 by Friedrich Hayek. But Murray’s talk didn’t run ...

Sixty years ago, Life photographer John Dominis traveled to eastern Kentucky, where he captured shocking and raw photographs of deprivation—the target of President Lyndon Johnson’s recently announced ...

“For me all that took place in Vietnam was inseparable from Hiroshima,” wrote the American psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton in his 2011 memoir, Witness to an Extreme Century. He was referring to the ...

In the wake of Hamas’s October 7 attack in Israel, an international genocide debate has been unleashed. Some in the field of genocide studies, including Israeli historian Raz Segal and British ...

U.S. history is a strange, exceptional field of play where, to paraphrase Garrison Keillor’s famous sign-off from Lake Wobegon, all the revolutions are strong, all the revolutionaries are kind, and ...

The philosophers have merely interpreted the white race; the point, however, is to abolish it. How can this be done? The last time I saw Noel Ignatiev was a few weeks before his death in 2019. He was ...

The race to commercialize the Internet is over, and advertising is the big winner. This is excellent news if you are an executive or major shareholder of one of the handful of companies that dominate ...