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The New York Times entered the digital era under duress. In 2011, the Times erected a paywall in what it called a... Read More

Each had his own ministry, where he spent his time, and had already moved or was moving to his official apartment or had decided when or... Read More

Many years ago, when I was a junior professor at Yale, I cold-called a colleague in the anthropology department for assistance with a project... Read More

If you’ve been lucky enough to spend the lockdown reading, you probably lined Jeff Bezos’ pocket. Even though books make up just... Read More

‘This book frankly leapt out of me,” writes John McWhorter, “during the summer of 2020.” The country was convulsed... Read More

The life and work of Stephen Crane derived gravity from brevity. Not one of his novels is much more than a hundred pages long, and they and... Read More

The earliest known image of Homer comes to us in the form of a Roman imperial copy of a head, now in Munich, that once belonged to... Read More

It feels good to walk through a foreign train station carrying an American passport. It is the Ferrari of travel documents. Admittedly, some... Read More

Like a lot of people who get their understanding of the world from books, I fell in love twice when I was 20. I was introduced to Hart... Read More

In 1935, the year before Margaret Mitchell’s magnolia-scented novel “Gone With the Wind” began 21 months on... Read More

It is hard to dispute the claim that the United States is a political and social order in the midst of an immense crisis. The old... Read More

Divorce usually isn’t a good idea, and that’s especially true of a nearly 250-year-old continental nation. The notion of a... Read More

Journalists and commentators have always had their political biases. It’s nothing new. However, in her new book, “Bad News: How... Read More

The headline-making chart in Charles Murray’s Facing Reality (Encounter, 2021) is the non-euphemistic layout of estimated IQ... Read More

Suddenly, it seems, everyone has a lot to say about Michel Foucault. And much of it isn’t pretty. After enjoying a decades-long run as... Read More

"Aristotle was born, worked, and died,” Martin Heidegger famously told a hall full of undergraduates. “Now let us turn to... Read More

It was the greatest emperor’s-new-clothes gag in modern intellectual history. Physicist Alan Sokal’s famous hoax article—a... Read More

It’s a name that many, if not most, people are unfamiliar with—unless they remember the name of the author who wrote the nursery... Read More

A well-known portrait of Edward Osborne Wilson shows the smiling Harvard professor hovering, like a benevolent god, over some models of his... Read More

When we think of Henry David Thoreau, we think of him at Walden. Indeed, readers might be forgiven for imagining that he passed his entire... Read More