In "The World After Gaza," essayist Pankaj Mishra turns trips to Israel and the Palestine into sobering essays about the violent crisis there.

One of my favorite columnists is Willem Lange, who writes a column called “A Yankee Notebook” for the Valley News in New Hampshire. Willem is an old Yankee, a hunter, a fisherman, a storyteller, an ...

The first month of the second Trump presidency has put the lie to the widespread wisdom that Donald Trump has no ideology and ...

Omar El Akkad sees a future in which western intelligentsias will whitewash their past complaisance, but Pankaj Mishra is in ...

In 1997, for example, Vivian Gornick wrote that love was no longer the primary narrative conflict of contemporary literature.

When does a crush begin to feel like love? This is hard to answer. How can we define that emotion well enough to demarcate ...

As someone who has spent decades working with high-achieving individuals, I’ve observed that dissatisfaction often stems not ...

Today’s tech oligarchs want the appearance of public acclaim for their deeply elitist vision of society—while maintaining a docile and cooperative public.

The blunt fact is that anti-Semitism is on the rise in Australia. There’s a clear starting date for this latest surge in “the longest hatred” – October 7, 2023, when Hamas terrorists stormed the ...

Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil' concept applies to Trump's Gaza plan, highlighting the dangers of bureaucratic compliance.

Promise day stands as a reminder of the importance of staying true to our words and relationships by standing by them through ...