Introducing Justapedia A new alternative to Wikipedia has arrived. Can it succeed where others have failed? Shuichi Tezuka 11 Dec 2023 · 24 min read
Kissinger and Cambodia Attempts to hold US policy solely responsible for the rise of the Khmer Rouge are historically inept. Lachlan Peters 7 Dec 2023 · 20 min read
“There’s Nothing Mystical About the Idea that Ideas Change History” An interview with Steven Pinker. Matt Johnson 1 Dec 2023 · 27 min read
The Return of the Progressive Atrocity It is the responsibility of Western activists to know who and what they support, and to separate themselves—openly and decisively—from programs and regimes that are predicated on violence and repression. Susie Linfield 18 Nov 2023 · 21 min read
Who Should Fund Science? The notion that governments should fund science is built on falsehoods. Zachary Robert Caverley 4 Nov 2023 · 17 min read
Man Out of Time A look back at the career of Avery Corman, who found popular success with ‘Kramer versus Kramer’ before running afoul of feminism. Kevin Mims 6 Oct 2023 · 19 min read
Howard Men Prince Jones, Carlton Jones, and the evasions of Ta-Nehisi Coates. Adam Gussow 3 Oct 2023 · 58 min read
Sculpture and Story Narrative art has been deeply unfashionable for about a century. But aren’t art and stories inextricable? Aidan Harte 2 Oct 2023 · 20 min read
Dogmatism, Data, and Public Health A look back on the 2003 BMJ controversy over passive smoking and mortality. Geoffrey C. Kabat 15 Sep 2023 · 20 min read
Should We Stay or Should We Go? Humanity and the Final Frontier. Joseph Grosso 28 Aug 2023 · 20 min read
‘A Dream Deferred’ Revisited Shelby Steele’s masterful second book invites black America to reject redemptive liberalism and the helplessness it demands for a humanistic politics of advancement. Samuel Kronen 22 Aug 2023 · 17 min read
The Lab-Leak Illusion The laboratory accident hypothesis of COVID-19’s origins is a bust, but the popular consensus is unwilling to accept it. Jamie Palmer 19 Aug 2023 · 53 min read
Faith Goes to Switzerland When should we allow a person to hasten her own death? Brent M. Kious / Margaret Pabst Battin 7 Aug 2023 · 25 min read
A Life in the Fray A new memoir by Martin Peretz, the former owner and editor-in-chief of The New Republic, provides a timely reminder of what American journalism has lost. Jeffrey Herf 10 Jul 2023 · 22 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 · 18 min read