Uncertainty about where we find ourselves in political time—“back to the future,” back to the GOP of 1989, or back to Germany ...

In Crito and Phaedo, Plato takes this alliance between Socrates and poetry further, attributing to Socrates direct acts of ...

This is the first installment of a new column by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò. It appears in print in our Fall 2025 issue; subscribe to get a copy. In 1962, eminent philosopher Bertrand Russell received a series ...

David Adler is a writer and researcher based in London. He received his MPhil in Politics at the University of Oxford and was a Rhodes Scholar at New College, researching the British housing crisis ...

“As a punishment for the crime of being born of a white father and a black mother I spent my early years in a prison for children.” So begins My Country, Africa: Autobiography of the Black Pasionaria ...

Trump’s actions are illegal, yes. Worse than that, they are wrong—precisely what the legality debate is meant to obscure. Atop its other outrages and illegalities, the Trump administration has taken ...

Paragon Solutions, Israel’s premier mercenary spyware firm, is headquartered on the top five floors of a glass panel skyscraper that sits next to a discount bank branch in central Tel Aviv. When I ...

I learned my name was on the list from a Jewish colleague at my university, a woman I hardly know. “I need to tell you something,” she wrote in an email to me. “Do you have a minute for a call today?” ...

Pundits and politicians conceal the truth: it’s all around us, perpetrated by our political system itself. Georges Sorel, writing in 1908, gave a very different account of violence in his classic, ...

This weekend Paul Thomas Anderson premiered his new film, One Battle After Another, loosely adapted from Thomas Pynchon’s 1990 novel Vineland. Revisiting the book five years ago, Peter Coviello ...