The Collapse of Feminism
Spice Girls slogans and reality-TV aesthetics: A new book traces how feminism morphed into clickable objectification.
Why Are Young People Everywhere So Unhappy?
Here’s the answer to that—and what we can do about it.
The Texas County Where ‘Everybody Has Somebody in Their Family’ With Dementia
And many people with the condition are cared for at home.
Endowments Are Next
Taxing endowments is likely to weaken elite institutions, not fix them. That’s the point.
Putin’s Bread and Circus Had Bread
If there’s one cue Trump missed from the Russian dictator, it’s never to mess with economic stability.
The U.S. Threat Looming Over Canada
The consequences if Trump followed through on his belligerent rhetoric about a “51st state” would be catastrophic.
Why Do Collaborators Do It?
In a new novel, Daniel Kehlmann considers why the director G. W. Pabst worked with the Nazis.
The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books
To read a book in college, it helps to have read a book in high school.
Gallery: Why Nixon Created the EPA
Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber
A series of purposely brutalizing psychological experiments may have confirmed Theodore Kaczynski’s still-forming belief in the evil of science while he was in college.
This Conclave Will Be Different
The media have never had so much influence on the men who pick the pope.
I Should Have Seen This Coming
When I joined the conservative movement in the 1980s, there were two types of people: those who cared earnestly about ideas, and those who wanted only to shock the left. The reactionary fringe has won.
The Comic Who’s His Own Worst Enemy
The Rehearsal takes the prankster’s quest for self-betterment to new extremes.
How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days
He used the constitution to shatter the constitution.
The Missing Branch
In an era of intense constitutional combat, Congress is nowhere to be found.