Archaeologists Have Found the Oldest Roman Temple
There are a lot of things historians don't know much about. Ancient Rome is not one of them. Most classical archaeologists would count themselves lucky to add a shard of terracotta to a museum's...
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For the 1,900 years between Tacitus’s Annals and Robert Graves’s I, Claudius, accounts of Roman history have most often focused on its emperors and conquerors, and above all on Julius Caesar, founder...
View ArticleNo Trend Is Spared in Younger
There is a joke that I have started hearing around New York City, in the (admittedly small) publishing circles I travel in: If you hear a good tidbit of gossip, you can almost guarantee it will appear...
View ArticleThe Soccer Mom Strikes Back
Chrissy Houlahan has almost everything Democratic strategists look for in a candidate: A political newcomer, she served in the military and has experience in both the public and private sectors. But...
View ArticleCan the Catholic Church Reform From Within?
The numbers alone are staggering: 1,000 victims, 300 priests. On Tuesday, to collective horror, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court released the results of its grand jury investigation into child sexual...
View ArticleIs Elon Musk Losing It?
Elon Musk is burnt out. He has been working for 120 hours a week, he told The New York Times in a deeply personal and occasionally alarming interview. He has not taken a week off since 2001, when he...
View ArticleThe Kavanaugh Confirmation Fight Is Getting Messy
Replacing Anthony Kennedy should have been easy for Republicans. His retirement in June gave the party a historic opportunity: to replace the Supreme Court’s swing justice with a more doctrinaire...
View ArticleThe Power of Truth in a ‘Post-Truth’ Age
When the tanks of the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact nations rumbled into Czechoslovakia on August 20, 1968, Czech philosopher Ivan Sviták had a fateful decision to make.Support for gradual reform...
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After the Financial Crisis, A Decade of Damage
We already know much of the story that Adam Tooze tells in Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World, his ambitious study of the causes and effects of the financial meltdown that...
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The New Campus Novel
As working conditions in the academic humanities have deteriorated, the job of satirizing them has gotten more complicated. Elif Batuman’s memoir of Russian studies, The Possessed, came out eight years...
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The Modern Automobile Must Die
Germany was supposed to be a model for solving global warming. In 2007, the country’s government announced that it would reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent by the year 2020. This was the...
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Is Democracy Really Dying?
In the middle of the 1970s, Zbigniew Brzezinski approached his friend, Harvard political scientist Samuel Huntington, with a question: Is democracy in crisis? It was a subject of much concern at the...
View ArticleRepublicans Don’t Own Patriotism Anymore
Before the 2016 election, a woman showed up at Hillary Clinton’s headquarters in Flint, Michigan, asking for a lawn sign and offering to canvass. She was told those efforts were not “scientifically”...
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Trump’s Staggering Impact on Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Lukas Schulze/Getty ImagesThe National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Monday released yet another dismal monthly report on the state of the global climate, concluding that last month was the...
View ArticleAsia Argento, Avital Ronell, and the Integrity of #MeToo
In the past week, two prominent women have been accused of sexual abuse, resulting in questions about the #MeToo movement’s integrity. The first was Avital Ronell, a professor of German and Comparative...
View ArticleWomen Are Rebuilding the Democratic Party From the Ground Up
Republicans outnumber Democrats two to one in the western Pennsylvania district where Lisa Boeving-Learned, a veteran and retired police sergeant with a wife and deep family ties in the region, is...
View ArticleWhy Jack Dorsey’s Apology Tour Backfired
It has been a banner year for corporate apologies. June’s NBA Finals, for example, featured advertisements from Wells Fargo, Facebook, and Uber that all asked their customers for forgiveness. The CEO...
View ArticleDemocrats’ Responsibility for America’s Forever War
Earlier this month, 40 Yemeni schoolchildren and 11 adults were killed by a bomb—one that has a legible genealogy. As CNN reported, it was a 500-pound laser-guided MK 82 bomb. And while Saudi Arabia...
View ArticleManafort Down
For more than a year, President Donald Trump has railed against the Russia investigation as a partisan “witch hunt” organized by his political enemies to bring down his administration. Twelve jurors in...
View ArticleThe Worst Day Yet of Trump’s Presidency
Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s longtime personal attorney, told a federal court in Manhattan on Tuesday that he broke the law at Trump’s behest during the 2016 campaign, paying off two women with whom...
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