Paranoid Pop
A look back at the remarkable life and career of one of the 20th Century’s most original artists.
David Cohen
· 20 min read
Long Read
A collection of 190 posts
And Yet it May (Or May Not) Move
If we allow ideological campaigns to discourage controversial research, we will be making a terrible mistake.
Bryan J. Pesta
· 21 min read
All About Dave
The tragic rise of a former comic, liberal, and Angeleno.
Ross Anderson
· 33 min read
The Philadelphia Experiments
How an enterprising doctor, an elite university, and negligent public officials turned a city prison system into the largest human research factory in America.
Allen M. Hornblum
· 26 min read
Fukuyama’s Victory
Liberal democracy has again proved itself capable of overcoming its internal challenges and contradictions.
Matt Johnson
· 22 min read
Startling Intimations of Greatness
As we await the release of Woody Allen’s 50th feature film, his biographer looks back on the career of one of America’s great cinematic artists.
David Evanier
· 26 min read
FDR and the Holocaust
A widely praised new series by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein distorts the historical record to rehabilitate a flawed US president.
Ronald Radosh
· 26 min read
‘The Dawn of Everything’ and the Politics of Human Prehistory
David Graeber and David Wengrow’s tendentious assault on the Enlightenment and its modern defenders is a bust.
Dennis J. Junk
· 22 min read
Rethinking Authenticity
It is not a destination. It’s our ongoing life’s work as responsible adults.
Niamh Jiménez
· 20 min read
Robert Trivers and the Riddle of Evolved Altruism
Survival of the fittest versus compassion and cooperation in evolutionary theory and politics.
Daniel Kriegman
· 24 min read
Reject the Rules of the Social Media Game
The only winning move is not to play.
Niamh Jiménez
· 20 min read
Fate, Faith, and Suffering
Coping is not enough. We must strive to live.
Samuel Kronen
· 27 min read
Go Ask Beatrice: Notes on a Dishonest Decade
An outstanding new book tells the story of a wildly successful literary hoax. But it was just one of many.
Kevin Mims
· 29 min read
Guilty and Insane
Dissociative Identity Disorder and the riddle of human responsibility.
Daniel Kriegman
· 20 min read
Lost Soul Behind Bars
The untold story of Upheaval, a prison band that recorded one of the most sought-after soul singles of the 1970s.
Max Wilson
· 21 min read