Heidegger’s Downfall Richard Wolin’s reappraisal of Martin Heidegger offers both original contributions and a synthesis of critical scholarship. The result is a timely work of enduring importance. Jeffrey Herf 22 Feb 2023 · 18 min read
The Liberal Internationalist A fine new book argues that the contemporary Left could learn a lot from the life and work of the late polemicist Christopher Hitchens. Michael J. Totten 20 Feb 2023 · 19 min read
Aristotle (and the Stoics): An Interview with John Sellars A new book by John Sellars explores the life’s work and extraordinary legacy of the man he has provocatively called “the single most important human being ever to have lived.” Riley Moore 19 Feb 2023 · 20 min read
Mearsheimer: Rigor or Reaction? What John J. Mearsheimer gets wrong about Ukraine, international affairs, and much else besides. Matt Johnson 15 Feb 2023 · 21 min read
Justice in Stockholm Thirty-four years after the massacre of political prisoners in Iran, the conviction of Hamid Noury in Sweden has been a victory for accountability and for the truth. Roya Hakakian 7 Feb 2023 · 19 min read
Whatever Happened to Light Verse? A paean to a disappearing and misunderstood literary tradition. Kevin Mims 21 Jan 2023 · 21 min read
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 18 Jan 2023 · 70 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 19 Dec 2022 · 20 min read
And Yet it May (Or May Not) Move If we allow ideological campaigns to discourage controversial research, we will be making a terrible mistake. Bryan J. Pesta 16 Dec 2022 · 21 min read
All About Dave The tragic rise of a former comic, liberal, and Angeleno. Ross Anderson 15 Dec 2022 · 33 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 10 Dec 2022 · 26 min read
Fukuyama’s Victory Liberal democracy has again proved itself capable of overcoming its internal challenges and contradictions. Matt Johnson 7 Dec 2022 · 23 min read
Startling Intimations of Greatness As we await the release of Woody Allen’s 50th feature film, his biographer looks back on the career of one of America’s great cinematic artists. David Evanier 21 Nov 2022 · 26 min read
FDR and the Holocaust A widely praised new series by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein distorts the historical record to rehabilitate a flawed US president. Ronald Radosh 27 Oct 2022 · 26 min read
‘The Dawn of Everything’ and the Politics of Human Prehistory David Graeber and David Wengrow’s tendentious assault on the Enlightenment and its modern defenders is a bust. Dennis J. Junk 22 Oct 2022 · 22 min read
