A collection of 197 posts
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.
A fine new book argues that the contemporary Left could learn a lot from the life and work of the late polemicist Christopher Hitchens.
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.”
What John J. Mearsheimer gets wrong about Ukraine, international affairs, and much else besides.
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.
A paean to a disappearing and misunderstood literary tradition.
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?
A look back at the remarkable life and career of one of the 20th Century’s most original artists.
If we allow ideological campaigns to discourage controversial research, we will be making a terrible mistake.
The tragic rise of a former comic, liberal, and Angeleno.
How an enterprising doctor, an elite university, and negligent public officials turned a city prison system into the largest human research factory in America.
Liberal democracy has again proved itself capable of overcoming its internal challenges and contradictions.
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.
A widely praised new series by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein distorts the historical record to rehabilitate a flawed US president.
David Graeber and David Wengrow’s tendentious assault on the Enlightenment and its modern defenders is a bust.