Sin and Social Science Glenn Loury’s startlingly frank confessional memoir offers a complex portrait of a brilliant scholar and a profoundly flawed man. John Lloyd 24 Jun 2024 · 14 min read
Transition and Apostasy: A Wife’s Perspective The wife of a biologically male transsexual explains how she helped her gender dysphoric spouse look beyond the simplistic slogans offered by online activists. Stephanie Hayton 31 Mar 2024 · 10 min read
Mystic Without a Church Werner Herzog’s new memoir provides a look back on the magisterial and occasionally maddening career of a cinematic visionary. Jaspreet Singh Boparai 28 Mar 2024 · 17 min read
Clearing Out My Father’s Office Reflections on a vibrant scientific career cut short. Geoffrey C. Kabat 29 Sep 2023 · 15 min read
For a Time, a Pit Bull Gave Me Back My Son If I couldn’t openly love him, I would love what he loved. Steve Salerno 8 Sep 2023 · 12 min read
Memories of a Childhood Arcadia For two four-year-old Ontario boys growing up in the 1950s, a backyard creek became the site of unforgettable adventures. Herman Goodden 16 Aug 2023 · 7 min read
My Journey Out of Extremism And how I became a small-l liberal. Richard Hanania 7 Aug 2023 · 11 min read
Broken Incentives The media’s incentives may be broken, but we as individuals do not have to be. Claire Lehmann 11 Nov 2022 · 12 min read
Next Year in Provence After my parents’ divorce, my mother complained a lot about small-town life in Cobourg, Ontario. For many locals, I learned, the feeling was mutual. Leah McLaren 25 Aug 2022 · 9 min read
AWOL Black Fathers When my mother called me in from play one afternoon to meet the man seated in our living room, her introduction was redundant—I immediately knew who he was. And, right off, I did not like him. His absence had been a painful matter in my life. The house that John Washington 21 Mar 2022 · 13 min read
An Englishman in Russia Bids His Daughter Farewell I am an Englishman in Southern Russia. For nearly four years I’ve lived here, helping my Russian ex-partner bring up our (now) eight-year-old daughter. At 9 o’clock last night I saw both of them onto a sleeper-train to Moscow. From there they will fly to Italy and the Robert Ginzburg 28 Feb 2022 · 6 min read
The Transmogrification of Harvey Weinstein I was a good friend of Harvey Weinstein during his early years as a concert promoter, before he became Harvey Weinstein, movie mogul. We subsequently drifted apart, and while Harvey went on to find astronomic success in Hollywood, I worked as the chief psychologist at the Massachusetts Treatment Center for Daniel Kriegman 20 Feb 2022 · 36 min read
The Land Where Angela Davis Is Queen I have watched the culture here slowly change—the troubling values I fled so far from followed me like a sort of reverse Manifest Destiny. Meghann McCracken 22 Dec 2021 · 24 min read
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and the Meaning of Human Suffering Every situation is distinguished by its uniqueness, and there is always only one right answer to the problem posed by the situation at hand. Samuel Kronen 28 Oct 2021 · 27 min read
Listening to Literature—What We Gain and Lose with Audiobooks The whole was something closer to verbal jazz. Art Edwards 28 Jul 2021 · 20 min read