In my Jerusalem neighborhood, there are three quiet streets named for historic Hebrew newspapers. Ha-Melitz (The Advocate), founded... Read More

I love conversion stories. This is no doubt because I'm a seeker myself. There's something about the passion of people who struggle with the... Read More

It was very surprising when, in July 2017, David Wallace-Wells' New York magazine cover story “The Uninhabitable Earth” went... Read More

From the late 1980s onwards, novelists, artists, critics and art historians have foreseen the death of postmodernism. Linda Hutcheon, in the... Read More

Do we all have a subconscious human tendency to take murder victims less seriously if they worked in the sex trade? Hallie Rubenhold, author... Read More

In his new book, In Pursuit of Civility, Oxford historian Keith Thomas traces how the idea of conduct befitting a civilized people... Read More

Frederick the Great was dismissive of those historians he defined as “mere workmen, who amass, scrupulously and without discrimination,... Read More

Hegemony is a funny kind of word. Its dictionary definition includes “leadership”—with that term's... Read More

At first blush, pork, honey, salt, chile, rice, chocolate and tomato may seem an unremarkable and arbitrary grocery list. Consumers... Read More

Bill Gates is a voracious reader. In conversation with him, it's striking how frequently he cites things he's read. So he doesn't just read a... Read More