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How America Funded Islamism in Pakistan
To understand what India is up against, you have to go back to the Cold War—and our decision to empower a vicious regime in Pakistan.
Eli Lake
51M
Things Worth Remembering: ‘Do Not Mourn Me Dead’
When I went to war, I wrote letters to my loved ones in case I never came home. Sullivan Ballou did too, and his words are a reminder of what Memorial…
Elliot Ackerman
American Vulgarity, from Lenny Bruce to Kanye West
When you restrain jokes, an obscene backlash is inevitable.
Eli Lake
Things Worth Remembering: ‘James’ Is a Masterpiece
This year’s Pulitzer Prize for fiction went to Percival Everett’s novel, which deserves every award in literature.
Tiya Miles
Timothy Snyder Spent Years Studying Fascists. He Thinks Trump Is One.
Is the Yale historian a prophet, as his supporters say? Or is he stripping the word ‘fascism’ of its meaning?
Peter Savodnik
The Man Who Helped Michael Jordan Win
Bari Weiss
44M
The Intellectual Godfathers of Protectionism
Once shunned, globalization’s doubters turned out to be right about its destructive economic and social consequences. What do they think of what Trump…
Joe Nocera
Tyler Cowen: Is Classical Liberalism for Losers?
For many on the right, the past decade has proven that liberalism is not strong enough to fight off illiberal challengers. They say it’s time to strike…
Tyler Cowen
Matti Friedman: What the Kibbutz Can Teach Israel on Its 77th Birthday
Of the 400 residents of Nir Oz, a quarter were either kidnapped or killed by Hamas on October 7. Now, they rebuild.
Matti Friedman
Douglas Murray: How Death Cults Infiltrated America
The British journalist rails against pro-Hamas protests—and the moral failure of a West that tolerates them.
Bari Weiss
The Most Dangerous Club on Earth
This is the sordid story of how North Korea lied its way into nuclear power—and how Iran might do the same.
Eli Lake
Could DNA Testing Exonerate the Lindbergh Baby’s Kidnapper?
There have always been doubts about whether or not Bruno Hauptmann was guilty. New evidence may give us the answer.
Joe Nocera and Poppy Damon
The Jews Who Saw Around History’s Darkest Corner
It is important to speak plainly about those who foresaw what was coming in Europe. Those who warned and acted and who saved what could be saved. Those…
Haviv Rettig Gur
Who Betrayed Anne Frank? We May Now Learn the Answer.
A newly opened Dutch archive challenges the myth of a nation that protected Jews—and sparks a reckoning with the present.
Ruth Franklin
Things Worth Remembering: One Easter Night in Europe
Yes, God is everywhere—no farther from us in a Walmart than He is in Vienna’s Stephansdom. But we are creatures of flesh, and a little grandeur helps us…
Rod Dreher
The Patron Saint of Lost Americans
Like so many in this modern, materialistic age, Seraphim Rose lost God. But then a void, a lover, and an Easter service brought him home.
Paul Kingsnorth
Ross Douthat: Why It’s Logical to Believe in God
The New York Times columnist on why miracles are ‘perfectly rational,’ what he’s praying for this Easter, and the contest for Elon Musk’s soul.
Bari Weiss
1HR 30M
The Trump White House and the New Opium Wars
The unraveling of U.S.–China economic ties echoes a darker chapter of history, when a trade dispute between the East and the West escalated into the…
Eli Lake
Things Worth Remembering: The Haunting Truth of Dostoyevsky’s Demons
Every movement that burns hot enough will attract opportunists, zealots, and destroyers. Even the most righteous cause can be hollowed out from within.
Benjamin Carlson
America and the Exodus
The story of Passover is not just a Jewish one. Our Founding Fathers were profoundly inspired by it. So was Cecil B. DeMille.
Meir Soloveichik
Tyler Cowen: Welcome to Our Weird and Wild Century. It’s a Lot Like the 17th.
England in the 1600s was full of radical progress—and also extreme disorder. Those qualities typify our own strange, unpredictable era.
Tyler Cowen
What 23andMe Told America About Itself
The disintegration of the DNA-testing company is not just the collapse of a business. It’s the collapse of a culture obsessed with identity.
Kat Rosenfield
Things Worth Remembering: America Is an Invention
For centuries, poets, musicians, and painters have crossed the Atlantic with dreams of a New World. George Berkeley was one of them. And so was I.
Dominic Green
Luigi Mangione and the History of Bourgeois Terrorism
The alleged CEO assassin is not the first elite to break rad. The notorious Ulrike Meinhof also took the plunge from protest to resistance.
Eli Lake
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