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Has an English Civil War Already Begun?
This historian thinks so.
Dominic Green
Things Worth Remembering: How to Ask Timeless Questions
When I first read I.B. Singer’s ‘Gimpel the Fool,’ I felt a door swing open—into faith, doubt, and a kind of storytelling I didn’t know was possible.
Joseph Epstein
No, You Are Not on Indigenous Land
Pieces of territory belong to institutions, not to racial groups.
Noah Smith
The Golden Age of Humanity? We’re Living in It.
Modernity is more meaningful and moral than medieval Christendom.
Steven Pinker and Marian L. Tupy
Americans to Celebrate: The Prophet of the Atomic Age
John von Neumann, the Hungarian immigrant who invented game theory and shaped America’s nuclear strategy, also believed the technologies he developed…
Jordan Ellenberg
Why America Is Shutting the Door on Immigration—Again
Twice before, America all but halted the influx of migrants. Restriction brought stability and allowed assimilation, the essential condition of…
Christopher Caldwell
America Is Broken—Walter Isaacson Wants to Fix It
Thirty-five words shaped our nation in 1776. Can they heal it in 2025?
Rafaela Siewert
51M
Democrats Have a Patriotism Problem. Here’s How to Fix It.
On the 100th anniversary of Bobby Kennedy’s birth, Democrats should reflect on what made the late liberal icon so popular.
Richard D. Kahlenberg and Ruy Teixeira
Sam Tanenhaus: The War Inside the Conservative Movement
The historian and William F. Buckley biographer joins Will Rahn to map the new ideological fault lines dividing the right.
Will Rahn
1HR 3M
The Presidential Guide to Surviving a Scandal
How Bill Clinton made life easier for Donald Trump.
Eli Lake
Young Hitler
On a visit to Austria, the author finds an Adolf that looks uncannily like certain young American men today.
David Samuels
Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s Socrates
The roots of punk go back much further than you think. Like 2,400 years back…
Eli Lake
39M
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