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

His memorial service in Glendale, Arizona, was attended not just by Trump and other high-ranking officials in his administration but also by Tucker Carlson and Steve Bannon, Daily Wire podcaster Matt ...

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 ...

Would Kamala Harris’s foreign policy depart from Biden’s? Clues from the work of her national security advisor, Philip Gordon. Harris has her own views about a range of foreign policy issues—including ...

I first arrived in Frankfurt, in this city of immigrants and exiles, in the fall of 1980, as a foreign student and scholar whose life was forever changed by her encounter with it. In Frankfurt I met ...

When I was a pre-med biology student, our professor gave us a lab assignment that involved pinning an earthworm to a small piece of wood, then probing it with an electrode to observe its response. The ...

I would like to stage a fight between two different accounts of the current political landscape—what’s been called the “post-truth” era, the infodemic, the end of democracy, or perhaps most accurately ...

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, ...

On the eve of the November 1938 midterm elections, President Franklin Roosevelt delivered a forceful radio address. “If American democracy ceases to move forward as a living force, seeking day and ...

The standard history of humanity goes something like this. Roughly 300,000 to 200,000 years ago, Homo sapiens first evolved somewhere on the African continent. Over the next 100,000 to 150,000 years, ...