History

Uproars

Leslie Epstein’s magic.

  • John Crowley

Intimate Revenge: Writing the Troubles

The Big Man of Northern Ireland, Ian Paisley, has died.

  • Roger Boylan

Poets and the People

Reflections on solidarity during wartime.

  • Robert von Hallberg

We Laughed, We Cried

Flann O’Brien’s triumph.

  • Roger Boylan

American Dreamers

Pete Seeger, William F. Buckley, Jr., and public history.

  • William Hogeland

Unfinished Story

On Holocaust by Charles Reznikoff.

  • Kathryn Crim

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All That Is Given

Hannah Arendt on being Jewish.

  • Vivian Gornick

Out of Exile

Notes on Georgi Gospodinov and Bulgarian literature.

  • Dimiter Kenarov

Inventing Alexander Hamilton

On the troubling embrace of the founder of American finance.

  • William Hogeland

Left Behind

Romanticizing Germany's Urban Guerillas

  • Paul Hockenos

Back to the Future

On Israel’s existential crisis.

  • Robert Blecher
  • Jeremy Pressman

Whole Sight

On artistic passion.

  • Charles Johnson

The Reckoning

On the proper place for religion in politics.

  • Catherine Tumber

In Search of the Common Good

The Catholic roots of American Liberalism

  • Lew Daly

Knowing Right and Wrong

Is Morality a Natural Phenomenon?

  • Alex Byrne

The Beginning of Wisdom

Like many other writers of his time, H.G. Wells thought of himself as a Man of the Future, but his style of self-presentation remained Victorian.

  • Vivian Gornick

Orientalism Revisited

Edward Said’s unfinished critique.

  • Lawrence Rosen

Latin America’s Rebellion

Will the new left set a new agenda?

  • Claudio Lomnitz

The Lost Immigration Debate

Border control did not always dictate immigration policy.

  • Mae M. Ngai

Memory Place

Argentina’s campaign against the past

  • Marc B. Haefele

A Witness to Murder

Heinrich Jöst’s photographs of the Holocaust dwell in what Jean Améry called “the waiting room of death.”

  • Susie Linfield

Christ’s Militia

How evangelical Protestantism came to dominate American religion.

  • Gary B. Nash

Robert Capa’s Hope

The photographer wanted to show what freedom, and the people who made it, looked like.

  • Susie Linfield

Creator and Destroyer

The rivalry between J. Robert Oppenheimer and Edward Teller was a rivalry to end the world.

  • Vivian Gornick
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