Scenes from a Marriage
In 2020, a British High Court judge ruled that actor Johnny Depp was probably a “wife beater.” Earlier this year, an American jury disagreed. Who got it right?
Charlotte Allen
· 70 min read
Hope, Trust, and Religious Faith
In the 1990s, religious Americans embraced science’s re-definition of spirituality. They would be unwise to repeat this mistake.
Ronald W. Dworkin
· 11 min read
Experiences with Suicide
Coping with a uniquely painful kind of bereavement.
Art Kusserow
· 9 min read
The Inner Life of Transcendent Genius
In ‘The Philosophy of Modern Song,’ Dylan contemplates himself and the art form of which he is the acknowledged master.
Benjamin Kerstein
· 13 min read
A Report From the Stanford Academic Freedom Conference
The urgency of our mission was reflected in the list of attendees—many of whom had been laid off, mobbed, or ostracized because of their research.
Elizabeth Weiss
· 14 min read
More Than Just a Social Construct
The fiction that race has no biological basis is more likely to exacerbate health disparities than narrow them.
Robert J. Morris
· 9 min read
Stuck in the Middle (of Academia)
Academia is a mess, but there is still hope.
Christopher J. Ferguson
· 12 min read
In Memoriam
A tribute to five pop fiction writers we lost in 2022.
Kevin Mims
· 12 min read
Paranoid Pop
A look back at the remarkable life and career of one of the 20th Century’s most original artists.
David Cohen
· 20 min read
The Radicalization of the Film Canon
Sight and Sound’s 2022 poll is a sign of the times.
Adrian Nguyen
· 13 min read
Saving Twitter—A Roundtable
Elon Musk’s controversial takeover of Twitter has led many commentators to wonder if the platform can be improved by its new owner. In this roundtable, three writers offer their thoughts and suggestions.
Bo Winegard, Jim Rutt, and Cody Moser
· 17 min read
The Philadelphia Experiments
How an enterprising doctor, an elite university, and negligent public officials turned a city prison system into the largest human research factory in America.
Allen M. Hornblum
· 26 min read
Brute Physical Facts and Social Construction
The progressive and the traditionalist are equally detached from the underlying reality as currently described by science.
Vinod Goel
· 12 min read
In From the Cold
Solzhenitsyn’s Ivan Denisovich at 60.
Robin Ashenden
· 15 min read
Murakami On Writing
In his new book, Murakami attempts to set the limits of what he wants people to know about him—and that isn’t much.
David S. Wills
· 11 min read