Getting Better All the Time Hannah Ritchie’s new book offers reasons to be cheerful about the present and the future. Sean Welsh 15 Feb 2024 · 12 min read
Bestseller Reparations In ‘American Fiction,’ director Cord Jefferson brings a devil-may-care effrontery to bear on the culture of self-censorship, progressive pieties, and artistic hypocrisy. Thomas Larson 24 Jan 2024 · 7 min read
Master of Reality “Things were bleak, they really were. Yet nobody was singing about that side of life, which is why we thought we should.” George Case 22 Jan 2024 · 8 min read
A Historian for Our Moment Jeffrey Herf has made a scholarly commitment to document the words of Islamic Jew-hatred from their origins in Egypt and wartime Berlin. That has made him a lonely voice in the American professoriate. Sol Stern 10 Jan 2024 · 14 min read
A Dense Thicket of Contending Visions In his latest novel, Tom Piazza imagines the finest meeting of American minds never to have happened. Matt Hanson 7 Jan 2024 · 6 min read
Mutual Friends: The Adventures of Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins A charming exhibition at London’s Charles Dickens Museum provides a fascinating glimpse into the private lives of two great English writers. Hannah Gal 11 Dec 2023 · 7 min read
The Pervert’s Guide to Philosophy Costin Alamariu’s (AKA Bronze Age Pervert's) doctoral dissertation is attracting a lot of interest but it doesn’t add up to much. Oliver Traldi 25 Nov 2023 · 19 min read
Robert Sapolsky is Wrong A new book about free will fails to offer an original argument or make a convincing case. Stuart Doyle 6 Nov 2023 · 13 min read
Destiny of Earth Muthukrishna’s new book presents a fundamentally optimistic narrative, brimming with ideas and concepts. Razib Khan 1 Nov 2023 · 6 min read
A Failure to Communicate Jeff Sharlet’s new book is a stark and dispiriting dispatch from Trump country. Matt Hanson 30 Oct 2023 · 6 min read
An Eye for the Jugular A new documentary looks back on the life and work of satirist, novelist, and New Journalist, Tom Wolfe. Thomas Doherty 27 Oct 2023 · 11 min read
Shadows No More A new book examines Israel’s mounting campaign to check Iran. Brian Stewart 25 Oct 2023 · 7 min read
Liberalism Against Utopianism Samuel Moyn’s analysis of what ails liberal societies is fatally compromised by his own socialist commitments. Alan S. Rome 24 Oct 2023 · 9 min read
The Extraordinary Life of Tom Nash “The deep end is the best place to learn to swim.” Iona Italia 17 Oct 2023 · 19 min read
Civil Rights and Wrongs Richard Hanania’s new book is a welcome entry to the conversation about wokeness, but his power-based perspective is incomplete. Oliver Traldi 23 Sep 2023 · 16 min read