Francis Fukuyama's sense of grievance, expressed in the preface to his new book, is patent. Ever since he published his essay “The End... Read More

One of the most unsettling aspects of former independent counsel Ken Starr's memoir about his 1990s investigation into the doings... Read More

Ben Fountain thinks that the election of Donald J. Trump has led to a crisis as calamitous as the Civil War and the Great Depression. This,... Read More

Facebook is a company that has lost control—not of its business, which has suffered remarkably little from its series of unfortunate... Read More

What does the word ‘decorum' mean to you? Today, it's likely to summon up the smothering niceties of a Victorian-era etiquette manual.... Read More

For nearly half a century, an air of inevitability has clung to the decline of the American labor movement. As union density has fallen... Read More

In his latest book, Michael Beschloss details the windup to eight wars — and the executive branch involvement in each.With the... Read More

About the same time Bob Woodward's Fear began grabbing public attention, another, similar book hit the newsstands. Like Fear,... Read More

In the wake of the global financial meltdown, Jacobin magazine has emerged as the preeminent mouthpiece for a resurgent Marxist... Read More

Like most Americans born after 1990, I spent too much time online starting at far too young an age. First came bulletin-board forums and... Read More

Martin Seymour-Smith was a grumpy fellow. A promising poet who took up writing big reference books of literary criticism, his highly... Read More

After decades of attention to Oscar Wilde's 1895 trials and his incarnation of the homosexual subject, a spate of recent publications... Read More

Today when we think of “identity politics” we tend to think of right-wing racists or left-wing student radicals. But in his new... Read More