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In the preface to Texas vs. California, Kenneth Miller indicates that he finished his manuscript in May 2020. That makes it unusually... Read More

In August of 2008, Elon Musk watched with delight and then horror as the Falcon 1 rocket built by his company SpaceX launched from an atoll... Read More

On Easter Monday 2018, Donald and Melania Trump stood on the balcony of the White House next to a giant bunny. It’s part of the job:... Read More

James R. Otteson’s “Seven Deadly Economic Sins” (Cambridge, 305 pages, $27.95) is a fine effort to introduce... Read More

Midway through James Joyce’s Ulysses, a harried Leopold Bloom attempts a modest definition of nationhood: “A nation,” he... Read More

This past April, I was vaxxed by INOVA, a large and nominally non-profit, non-governmental health care system in Northern Virginia. I... Read More

It was easy, at the outset, to support Nikole Hannah-Jones on general principle. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s... Read More

One year after A
merica’s public schools were forced to go remote overnight in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, we know that... Read More

Notre Dame law professor O. Carter Snead wrote a book last year, to wide acclaim, about “the body in public bioethics,” and... Read More

SEVERAL YEARS AGO, when I found myself writing a book for the first time, I made a routine out of constantly reading and re-reading... Read More

Holly Ordway’s engrossing volume Tolkien’s Modern Reading is significant in its own right, but it also marks the... Read More

Dante Alighieri was early in recognising that our age has a problem. He was the first writer to use the word moderno, in Italian, and... Read More

Winston Spencer Churchill was one of the greatest men of the past century and of modern times more broadly. A world-class statesman, he... Read More

So momentous an event was the French Revolution, so labyrinthine its evolution and so far-reaching its consequences for the whole of Europe... Read More

St. Paul’s letter to the Galatians is among the earliest documents in the collection of texts that we call the New Testament.... Read More

Five years ago, it seemed to many observers that something called “nationalism” had returned to U.S. politics and culture. After... Read More

It had been a few months since I’d graduated from college, and I was running out of money and still struggling to find a job. The... Read More

Two new books about the final year of Donald J. Trump’s presidency are entering the cultural bloodstream. The first,... Read More

n a 1959 letter to her friend Mary McCarthy, Hannah Arendt paused to commiserate on a harrowing experience they had in common: having their... Read More

He was manipulative—and manipulated. He was a boor—and a bore. He had gumption—and guile. He was a vicious... Read More

President Biden has put combating climate change at the very top of his national and international agenda, saying that military officials had... Read More

Ihave the habit, when reading a collection of essays, of not reading them in order. I’m pretty sure I’m not alone in this. So, as... Read More

A poet friend of mine has often complained about the common assumption that learning the biographical details about a writer brings us closer... Read More