History on Horseback: Napoleon Bonaparte The French emperor and military commander played a pivotal role in an epochal transformation. Ralph Leonard 4 Dec 2023 · 16 min read
‘The Princess Bride’ at 50 A look back at William Goldman’s bonkers metafictional novel ‘The Princess Bride,’ which later became a much-loved family film. Kevin Mims 19 Jun 2023 · 17 min read
Belafonte Reappraised Neither hagiographers nor haters of the late musician, actor, and activist have managed to get him right. Ronald Radosh 20 May 2023 · 17 min read
Social Panic at Sundance Meg Smaker’s film about the rehabilitation of former Guantanamo terror suspects was nuanced and sympathetic. But the mob didn’t care. M. Pollino 14 Oct 2022 · 8 min read
Guilty and Insane Dissociative Identity Disorder and the riddle of human responsibility. Daniel Kriegman 29 Jul 2022 · 19 min read
The Delia Demolition Why is the Atlantic slinging mud at the 72-year-old author of ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’ on the eve of the film’s release? Kevin Mims 19 Jul 2022 · 19 min read
The Subversive Conservatism of Rocky Balboa Rocky's vision of a good life was humble, traditional, and local. Stewart Slater 15 Jul 2022 · 7 min read
A Peculiarly Australian Kind of Hell—Revisiting ‘Wake in Fright’ Ryan Anderson 28 Sep 2021 · 16 min read
'Vice'—A Review The Republican running the session effortlessly fools the group into accepting facts that the audience (of smart liberals, of course) know to be lies. Louise Perry 7 Feb 2019 · 6 min read