Long Read

“Too Much Science in the Curriculum”

Tragicomic scenes from reparations-based medicine.

May 1 • Steve Salerno

Rohmer at Camelot

Éric Rohmer’s Perceval le Gallois (1978) vividly recreates the imaginative world in which the people of the Middle Ages lived inside their heads.

Apr 7 • Charlotte Allen

A Paradoxical War

The American debate about the campaign against the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Mar 13 • Jeffrey Herf

American Liberalism and Illiberalism

Despite deep disagreements over government, foreign policy, and other issues, Americans must unite around their shared commitment to liberal democratic…

Feb 9 • Matt Johnson

It is difficult to overstate just how reactionary Trump’s 2025 National Security Strategy is.

Jan 14 • Brian Stewart

The fate of the Weimar Republic stands as a warning of what happens when societies and their citizens indulge extremism. By Shalom Lappin

Jan 2

Embryo Selection: A Guide for the Curious

A look at the process, history, and ethics of a potentially revolutionary new technology.

Dec 2, 2025 • Rosalind Arden

Too Much Gilbert

The author of ‘Eat Pray Love’ has returned with a new memoir, which features all the usual problems with her writing writ large.

Dec 1, 2025 • Charlotte Allen

MAGA’s Weak Gods

Rusty Reno and the American postliberal revolt against the postwar consensus.

Nov 27, 2025 • Matt Johnson

The Jewel in the Crown

‘The Man Who Would Be King’ turns fifty.

Nov 26, 2025 • Graham

Power and Its Malcontents

Shadi Hamid has an uneasy conscience, and he doesn’t yet know what to do with it.

Nov 13, 2025 • Brian Stewart

The Feminist, the Filmmaker, and the Führer

Susan Sontag’s 1974 essay about Leni Riefenstahl and fascist aesthetics displayed the critic at her most stiflingly moralistic and aristocratic. By…

Nov 9, 2025

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