Tag: Books & Ideas

After fourteen years, Mohamedou Ould Slahi may finally have a chance at freedom.

Should we apply peer review to government?

The quantum puzzle of mass.

It is almost impossible to grasp how much Thomas Jefferson believed in progress.

Egalitarianism requires not just redistribution but equal social standing.

Critics take for granted that Primo Levi killed himself. But doubts remain.

Democratic forces persist amid brutal regime violence and sectarian conflict.

In the age of human rights, the language of duties has withered.

A primer on the Standard Model.

The family is changing. Will the social contract catch up?

Prominent Hungarian intellectuals have taken surprising anti-immigrant stances.

Among the casualties of neoliberalism is the very possibility of solidarity.

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

Second in our series on new experiments at CERN.

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

In America, life at the edge of racial belonging is not so black and white.

Before there was New Journalism, there was Lillian Ross.

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

Are we on the verge of unsettling our most basic theory of the physical world?

Recent histories of slavery and capitalism ignore radical black scholarship.

Niall Ferguson’s protestations aside, Henry Kissinger was the quintessential foreign policy realist.

A tribute to one of the century’s great anthropologists and teachers.

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

Forensic scientists respond to allegations that their work harms the criminal justice system.