Like the 2020s, the “Roaring Twenties” of a century ago witnessed a technological revolution: The rise of the automobile, widespread electrification, and mass production had all transformed everyday ...

The plot follows Romanian Mihai Gheorghiu, his wife Lisbet, and their children, who relocate to Norway, Lisbet’s birthplace, to be closer to her family. The devoutly evangelical family (the film’s ...

New York Governor Kathy Hochul emphasized her gender when asked on October 3 about her appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate a possible rape at a fraternity house at Cornell University in ...

Hegel said that a tragic situation is one in which both sides are right. The violence that has recently broken out at French ...

In the last week of July, two incidents involving disruptive Chinese fans of a genre of Asian media triggered something close to a crisis in international relations. Security personnel had forcibly ...

In the wake of Kamala Harris’s defeat in 2024, one heard often that Democrats needed to focus on class rather than identity. But what exactly does it mean to focus on class? And what class is it that ...

The German political establishment’s so-called firewall against the far right is crumbling. This month, the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) secured 44 percent of the vote in the state elections in ...

When Army Air Forces officer Claude Eatherly piloted the plane Straight Flush in support of Enola Gay’s mission to obliterate the city of Hiroshima, his tasks were little different from those of past ...

A quarter of a millennium ago, the New World declared its independence from the old one. This was not a matter of geography, but of society and history. This New World—the world of modern freedom—had ...

The conservative scholar Paul Gottfried devotes a chapter of his 2009 memoir Encounters to an unlikely mentor: Herbert Marcuse, the émigré German-Jewish philosopher and doyen of the Frankfurt School ...

When I applied to medical school in the midst of the pandemic and in the wake of the death of George Floyd, I had reason to think I was a competitive applicant, particularly for my state’s public ...

When I first watched Bernard Rose’s 1992 film Candyman, it affected me deeply. I saw it with my then-boyfriend and two other friends who sneered at its baroque tone; one of them jokingly intoned ...