Elite colleges are now reaping the consequences of promoting a pedagogy that trashed the postwar ideal of the liberal university.
In a new memoir, the author reckons with the attack that nearly took his life.
Vying for its crucial support, neither Democrats nor Republicans are focusing on the essential question.
Will America abandon Ukraine?
The press has repeatedly fallen into Donald Trump’s traps. A second term could render it irrelevant.
His blindness to human suffering was, in the end, both a moral failure and a strategic one.
Art and politics have very different agendas.
If this is Israel’s 9/11, it can learn from America’s mistakes.
PEN struggles to reconcile its commitment to social justice with its commitment to free speech.
For years, the company overcharged residents by billions of dollars, watchdogs say, while maintaining a vice grip on state politics.
The fight to get American allies out of Afghanistan continues.
For many historians today, the present is forever trapped in the past and defined by the worst of it.
What’s a “justice-involved person”?
Censored and then forgotten, Anatoly Kuznetsov’s Babi Yar, about the Nazi occupation of Kyiv, is again painfully relevant.
How Putin twists the history of World War II
The United States can—and must—wield its power for good.
In his new book, Adam Hochschild remembers a time when a crusade for democracy abroad released a demonic spirit of intolerance and violence at home.
Journalists—and all of us—are better off ignoring him.
Human-rights champions from Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus will share the prize, given not to countries but to people working to change them.
Anne Garrels may not have been the Queen of England, but she left an unforgettable legacy.