Books & Ideas

Holy Wars

Secularism is fundamental to liberal governance. But is it sustainable?

  • James G. Chappel

The Look of Disaster

Comic books can document the horrors of war better than photos.

  • Elizabeth Hand

Are Women the Silent Sex?

Getting women to participate in group decision-making takes more than superficial equality.

  • Tali Mendelberg
  • Christopher F. Karpowitz

“We Called That Touch”

Race and the Intimate Tangle of American Experience

  • Ed Pavlić

Lillian Ross: Witness

The pathbreaking work of a not-quite-New Journalist.

  • Jacqui Shine

The Roots of Black Incarceration

A nineteenth-century memoir sheds light on the origins of the modern prison.

  • Joy James

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Introducing “Searching for New Physics at CERN”—An Eight-Part Series

An eight-part series on the frontiers of contemporary particle physics.

  • Matthew Buckley

The Racist Dawn of Capitalism

Recent histories of slavery and capitalism ignore radical black scholarship.

  • Peter James Hudson

Machinations of Wicked Men

Niall Ferguson’s authorized biography falsifies Henry Kissinger’s intellectual legacy.

  • Jonathan Kirshner

The Sweet Life of Sidney Mintz

Remembering one of the century’s great anthropologists and teachers.

  • Sarah Hill

Pauli Murray, Beloved Radical

Crusading for black rights, women’s equality, and gender non-conformity.

  • Kenneth W. Mack

Should We Trust Forensic Science?

Forensic Experts Respond to Nathan J. Robinson

  • Wesley Vernon
  • Michael Nirenberg
  • Nathan J. Robinson

As a God Might Be

The recurring—and often conflicting—narratives of technology and progress.

  • Meghan O’Gieblyn

Beyond Freedom and Equality

The democratic value of dignity.

  • Nick Bromell

Pigs

Two men test their ethical and spiritual mettle by raising and slaughtering pigs.

  • Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey

To Be and to Do

The life’s work of Giorgio Agamben.

  • Leland de la Durantaye

Rethinking Evolution

Symbiosis, not just gradual change, may lie at the heart of how evolution works.

  • Anne Fausto-Sterling

For Love of Country

Is emotion the key to the good society?

  • Shivani Radhakrishnan

The Riptide of Technocracy

Is a centralized European Union compatible with democracy?

  • Jonathan White

A Servant Heart

How has neoliberalism become so closely linked with evangelical Christianity?

  • James G. Chappel

Our Own Private Disaster

Terrible Schools Are Great for Business

  • Erik Loomis

Forensic Pseudoscience

Hair tests, bite marks, blood spatter: it’s mostly magic.

  • Nathan J. Robinson

Inequality Is Not Our Fate

The way back to an egalitarian society.

  • Stuart White

To Hell with Good Intentions

School reform is failing America’s children.

  • Rob Reich
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