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’I’m terrified of the woke radicals at my kids’ school”: Rarely a week goes by when I don’t hear some... Read More

In the month before it was pulled by its publisher because of its author’s alleged sexual predations, Blake Bailey’s biography of Philip... Read More

The political memoir, as a genre, is in bad shape. There are too many memoirists, for one thing. Unimportant cabinet secretaries, mid-level... Read More

One of the paradoxes of modernity is that as living has become easier and more pleasurable, people have become... Read More

London will be “cheaper, grungier and younger” in future, with fewer billionaires and more crime, while our social lives... Read More

Winston Churchill has as good a claim as anyone to have been the greatest statesman of the 20th century. Yet while his reputation is secure,... Read More

When I was in my early 20s, I got an e-mail from Barbara Epstein, the cofounder of The New York Review of Books, asking me to write... Read More

Mistakenly, they called it the war to end all wars, a grinding collision of empires and nations from 1914 to 1918 that robbed the young of... Read More

“Did the world need another travel guide, and did we need to write it?” asks Laurie Woolever. The question arose in March 2017,... Read More

The term “cancel culture,” like “political correctness” before it, is a comical expression for an ugly cultural... Read More

Nuclear weapons carry a payload of cold logic: if both sides have them, neither will ever use them. But in 1962, when the Soviet Union and US... Read More

Years ago, a popular student at a university with a fondness for leftist politics cracked a joke to a girl he was interested in. She was... Read More

Louis menand’s big new book on art, literature, music, and thought from 1945 to 1965 instills the conviction that the 20th century... Read More

And you thought Louis Menand’s “The Free World” was long! Simon Heffer’s “The Age of Decadence: A History of... Read More

When I was part of a legal team trying to establish that Alabama children in poor school districts had a right to equal educational funding... Read More

The Nile is the river in question. Without it, no war. “It is the cause of the war,” Churchill writes. “It is the means by... Read More

In January 1802, Peter Mark Roget was an ambivalent young medical school graduate with no clear path. He lacked the professional connections... Read More

One afternoon in 1935, Milman Parry, a 33-year-old scholar whose research would revolutionize the study of Ancient Greek poetry, was... Read More

How did one of the greatest philosophers who ever lived get so much wrong? David Hume certainly deserves his place in the philosophers’... Read More

The United States, people around the world say, was founded by Puritans. The Puritan colonists were inspired by ‘the magnificence of... Read More

Dickens never recovered from the spooky stories his nurse told him at bedtime, and few of us ever outgrow Hitchcock. He holds us captive by... Read More

It is a good thing that Scott Yenor has tenure. In 2017, Yenor’s modest defense of parental rights against transgender... Read More

Since his election in 2018, Senator Josh Hawley has distinguished himself by his broad-ranging criticism of Big Tech. In his new... Read More