During the 2019 shareholder season, Justin Danhof, general counsel for the National Center for Public Policy Research, tabled a shareholder... Read More
My book When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment was released exactly three years ago. It... Read More
Amazon.com, Inc., perhaps the most commanding force in American consumer culture, wants you to believe that the highly charged issue of... Read More
Helen Andrews is an Eastern Orthodox writer who serves as senior editor at The American Conservative and author of the new... Read More
Ifirst read the English philosopher John Gray while sitting in the silence of the still, mid-afternoon heat of Helmand Province in... Read More
In “A Report to an Academy”, a short story published by Franz Kafka in 1919, an ape named Red Peter gives a lecture to a... Read More
The framing device that Martin Amis uses in his recent novel, Inside Story—Amis has a young man over to his Cobble Hill brownstone... Read More
I ’ve never understood what others make out of non-fiction. Me, I used to make fiction out of it, but that was a while ago and... Read More
Diamond mining isn’t the only business built on a lie, though the industry’s central myth — that diamonds are scarce and... Read More
The main message of Larry Olmsted’s informative “Fans: How Watching Sports Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More... Read More
The following piece is an adaption from “The Second Founding: An Introduction to the Fourteenth Amendment” by Ilan Wurman. The... Read More
If there is one portion of the U.S. Constitution the typical American is at least superficially acquainted with and even makes occasional... Read More
In 1997, the historian Iris Chang published her important, incendiary book The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II.... Read More
The study of the languages and literature of ancient Greece and Rome—a discipline once considered so foundational it was simply known... Read More
Tragically, the current pandemic lends this sparkling study of London in its most decisive century a grim topicality — for the city,... Read More
Ira Rosen probably would have liked nothing more than to mark the end of his long career in TV news by writing a gruffly charming... Read More
There recur in the work of T. S. Eliot two obsessions that make one cringe: his Jew-hatred and his contempt for... Read More
There have been a slew of comments in recent months suggesting that ideological woke progressivism is a new... Read More
In a short book about biography, Hermione Lee, literary life-writer par excellence, offered two metaphors for the art at which she... Read More
Humans are brilliant at coming up with solutions. But often these bring new problems that require their own solutions — that bring... Read More
“How do you solve a problem like Maria? How do you hold a moonbeam in your hand?” trill the nuns in The Sound of Music.... Read More
Stephen Phillips was doing dishes and listening to the podcast “A Life in Biography” one evening last fall when he learned why some people were not responding to his emails. He is writing a book for W.W. Norton about the writer and polemicist Christopher Hitchens, who died in 2011. But Carol Blue-Hitchens, the author’s widow, and Steve Wasserman, his literary agent, were not planning to par... Read More
Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855), a hybrid poet, theologian, and philosopher, widely regarded as the Ur-existentialist, argued that there is no riskier strategy in life than being risk-averse. In this, the eighth large-scale biography of the Danish firebrand, Clare Carlisle takes a number of authorial risks. For one, some of the book is written in the present tense and as though Carlisle were in t... Read More
“He was pleasant, interested in things, enjoyed a joke”, Nikolay Ponomariev, Stalin’s personal telegraphist, recalled of his boss. In my view, he was … kind. Attentive. In five years, not once did I hear him raise his voice to anyone or offend anyone or behave in an unpleasant way – not once. That’s why I respected him, and I’ll say it straight, I loved him for his poise, which made... Read More
In America today, right is wrong, men are women, 2+2=5, and the truth as we all understood it is over. What happened? In his philosophic survival guide for our postmodern age,
