In a new book, David Alff traces the origins of the railway line that joined Boston to Washington, D.C., transforming a young nation in the process.
Jonathan Kay speaks with Roya Hakakian about the rise and fall of Mohammad Jafar Mahallati, a former Iranian official who’d presented himself to Oberlin as an agent of peace and ‘forgiveness.’
Sacha Guitry disdained cinema as an art form, but with a slew of recent Blu-ray releases, his acidic comedies are finally receiving the attention they deserve.
Women-only spaces are valuable, and we should prevent biological males from accessing them, whatever their stated gender identity.
Can Kamala Harris be the stateswoman that the United States and the free world so urgently need?
A team of researchers is analysing what factors lead American university administrators to embrace illiberal ideological trends.
Elvis Costello at three score and ten.
The notion that Ukraine is a hopeless cause has been dramatically refuted by the audacious incursion into the Kursk Oblast.
The current system is not only economically counterproductive but incentivises people to become illegal immigrants.
With its thousands of problem-solving, information-discarding, thought-terminating conventional categories, a language is a great collection of off-switches for the mind.
Iona Italia talks to John Wood, Jr. of Braver Angels, about building a stronger democratic consensus in America.
Only when we understand the fragility of liberal democracy will we be properly motivated to defend it.
John Ganz’s lively new book provides a valuable account of the intellectual origins of Trumpism.
Melvin Lasky was an indefatigable defender of the liberal spirit during the recovery of postwar Germany.