In 1973, with the publication of a major biography of Hitler, he established himself as a respected if controversial ...

Doctors described ICE agents entering hospitals and clinics, lingering outside emergency departments, patients delaying or ...

This impunity plays out today in brutal displays of force that shock the conscience of most Americans. Several other essays ...

This essay appears in our next print issue. Subscribe to get a copy. On January 7 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Jonathan Ross shot and killed Renee Good, a thirty-seven-year-old ...

In the days following Nicolás Maduro’s kidnapping last month, a curious debate took place in which some announced the definitive end of the postwar liberal international order, while others responded ...

The 2014 English publication of Capital in the Twenty-First Century made the French economist Thomas Piketty a household name. The bestselling book, and the discussions that surrounded its release, ...

This essay appears in print in The Politics of Care. For many of us, the last few weeks have marked a new phase of our corona-lives—a dark and lonely corridor that stretches before us, no end in sight ...

It seems almost quaint—at a time when the academy is under systemic attack by those who talk of facts, faith, the greatness of the Founders, and the still greater power of “woke” educators—that during ...

Charles “Charley” Shively died on October 6, 2017, after a decade of decline at the hands of Alzheimer’s. Famous at the height of Gay Liberation in the 1970s and ’80s as a theorist, writer, and ...

This essay appears in print in Thinking in a Pandemic. Recent history tells us a lot about how epidemics unfold, how outbreaks spread, and how they are controlled. We also know a good deal about ...

In their new book, Abundance, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson argue that American liberals have ironically succumbed to a conservative worldview, in the original sense of “conservative.” Instead of ...