What the Kindle’s most-highlighted passages tell us about the soul of the American reader

A memoir illustrates what's wrong with her brand of school reform

50 Years of Foreign Reporting from the NYRB

The epic of colonial India

Bring on the daddy wars

Five films later, Hollywood still doesn't get Fitzgerald's novel

A brilliant look at the medicalization of misery

What can the revolutionary teach us if the revolution is dead?

The President promised not to undercut the rule of law for expedience's sake. He did. Now we face the consequences.

The wisdom of a poet in nature and in war

The Birth of Political Rhetoric in an Ancient Democracy

Politico's piece about Mark Leibovich's book is exactly what's wrong with 'this town'