History

The Charmer

by Fredrik deBoer,

Louis Farrakhan and the Black Lives Matter protests

To Laugh That We May Not Weep

by Art Spiegelman,

A nearly forgotten cartoonist we need to look at — right now!

Seminal Theories

by Christopher Oldstone-Moore,

From Of Beards and Men, by Christopher Oldstone-Moore, which will be published next month by the University of Chicago Press. Oldstone-Moore is a senior lecturer in history at Wright State…

Blast from the Past

by Nat Segnit,

The Battle of Waterloo turns 200

The Counterparty

by Elisabeth Zerofsky,

Can Bosnia escape the stranglehold of ethnic politics?

How the Islamic State Was Won

by James Harkin, on November 20, 2015

The Islamic State's influence grows; James Harkin interviews its fighters, enemies, and potential recruits

The Body Politic

by Emily Witt, on November 6, 2015

The battle over Pablo Neruda’s corpse.

Birds on the Wane

by E. B. Leonard,

Before the invention of the electric telegraph enabled man to outrival the boast of Shakespeare’s Puck that he would “put a girdle round about the earth in forty minutes,” the…

Miracles and Wonders

by Sallie Tisdale,

One woman’s search for a perfect bra

Irish Goodbye

From the 5,782 statutes passed in Ireland between 1385 and 1821 that were revoked in July under the country’s Statute Law Revision Act 2015. Read More

Lifting as We Climb

by Randall Kennedy,

A progressive defense of respectability politics