How French Intellectuals Ruined the West Postmodernism and Its Impact, Explained. Helen Pluckrose 7 May 2024 · 17 min read
Misadventures of a Stalinist Stooge Benn Steil’s engrossing new biography of Henry A. Wallace is a timely cautionary tale and a masterpiece of 20th-century American history. Ronald Radosh 25 Apr 2024 · 23 min read
Jean-Luc Godard in Retrospect Part II: Fanaticism and Failure (1966–2022) After half a decade of critical adulation, Godard’s career slumped into doctrinaire Maoism, bitterness, incomprehensibility, and irrelevance. It never recovered. Charlotte Allen 16 Apr 2024 · 36 min read
Jean-Luc Godard in Retrospect Part I: Abstraction Hero (1930–65) A brief five-year period produced nearly all the Godard movies that film aficionados still remember, but even these celebrated works have dated poorly. Charlotte Allen 10 Apr 2024 · 33 min read
Toward Ruin or Recovery? The modern feminist response to rape is failing women, and it is failing victims of rape most of all. Larissa Phillips 20 Mar 2024 · 34 min read
History Matters A restoration of history, in all its complexity, is critical to escaping the polarized, rigid, and often insane political environment we now inhabit. Joel Kotkin 14 Sep 2023 · 15 min read
Ending the Hunger Games New pharmaceuticals appear to offer a genuine solution to the problem of excess appetite, that uncontrollable urge to eat more than we need to that keeps so many of us fat. Iona Italia 7 Sep 2023 · 25 min read