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
Rethinking Authenticity It is not a destination. It’s our ongoing life’s work as responsible adults. Niamh Jiménez 21 Oct 2022 · 20 min read
Robert Trivers and the Riddle of Evolved Altruism Survival of the fittest versus compassion and cooperation in evolutionary theory and politics. Daniel Kriegman 7 Oct 2022 · 24 min read
Reject the Rules of the Social Media Game The only winning move is not to play. Niamh Jiménez 10 Sep 2022 · 20 min read
Fate, Faith, and Suffering Coping is not enough. We must strive to live. Samuel Kronen 5 Sep 2022 · 27 min read
Go Ask Beatrice: Notes on a Dishonest Decade An outstanding new book tells the story of a wildly successful literary hoax. But it was just one of many. Kevin Mims 2 Aug 2022 · 29 min read
Guilty and Insane Dissociative Identity Disorder and the riddle of human responsibility. Daniel Kriegman 29 Jul 2022 · 20 min read
Lost Soul Behind Bars The untold story of Upheaval, a prison band that recorded one of the most sought-after soul singles of the 1970s. Max Wilson 28 Jul 2022 · 21 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
