The work of art—and the work of making art—in an age increasingly hostile to it.

The elite delusions fueling the violence of the present, at home and abroad—in the Middle East, Ukraine, and beyond.

This February, the United States and Israel started a war with Iran, massively destabilizing the Middle East. A special ...

Ali Kadivar is Associate Professor of Sociology and International Studies at Boston College and a Fellow at Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University. He is author of Popular ...

Introducing our Spring 2026 issue.

On the ground in Gaza there is no trace of any effort to rebuild, nor have humanitarian conditions improved. This is what ...

On Saturday night, a lone gunman attacked the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, sending off the predictable wave of condemnations of political violence by U.S. public officials, from federal ...

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 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 ...

Science is under fire as never before in the United States. Even amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Donald Trump and his Republican allies dismiss the findings of health experts as casually as those of ...