Essay The Future Magical Thinking By Ben Tarnoff Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward presented a twentieth century that was free of nineteenth-century drudgery. More
Essay Politics Between the Lines By Robert Boyers A look at the crossroads where literature and politics meet, and the relationship between art and ideas. More
Essay Celebrity Against Appearances By Bruce Bawer Orson Welles became a star not by creating some great work, but by simply scaring the hell out of people. More
Essay Disaster Pressure Drop By Simon Winchester Exploring—and ignoring—climate chaos in the South Pacific. More
Essay Spies Happy All the Time By Lynn Stuart Parramore As biometric tracking takes over the modern workplace, the old game of labor surveillance is finding new forms. More
Essay Music Songs from Sinjar By Alex Cuadros How ISIS is hastening the end of the Yezidis’ ancient oral tradition. More
Essay The City Waiting for Goffman By Michael Dirda There are few better interpreters of modern metropolitan life than sociologist Erving Goffman. More
Essay Disaster The Anomaly of Barbarism By John Gray The brutality of Islamist terrorism has many precedents. More
