China Is Stealing Our Tech. And It’s Partly Our…
In recent years, there has been growing concern that the United States and China might find…
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Membership Has Its Privileges
London Clubland: A Companion for the Curious, by historian Seth Alexander Thévoz, is the rare book…
Medicine’s Descent Into Madness
The Minnesota chapter of White Coats for Black Lives, a medical student group, greeted the October…
The Soviet Defector Who Did the Most Damage
During the past 30 years, extraordinary material released from American and Russian archives has…
Witness to the Great Unsettling
The poet Marianne Moore is credited with describing what poets do as "the art of creating…
A Founding Document Finds Its Principles
Akhil Reed Amar's Born Equal: Remaking America's Constitution, 1840–1920 covers a period…
Ted’s Excellent Adventures
It cannot be said that Theodore Roosevelt has suffered from historical neglect. Harvard's…
Rushdie on Death and Dying (While Remaining Alive and…
Through no fault of his own, the author Sir Salman Rushdie has become the English-speaking world’s…
The Price of the Party at Barneys
To become a man in the Jewish tradition, a 13-year-old boy must have a bar mitzvah, a puberty rite…
Tolstoy’s Last Novel
Leo Tolstoy is the greatest writer in the Western world—greater, yes, than Shakespeare, Dante,…
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