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March 22, 2022
From Opium to Saffron, the Ancients Knew a Thing or Two About Drugs
Scholars of antiquity are finding ever more evidence that psychoactive substances played a central role in ancient life.
Karen Polinger Foster, Diana Stein and Sarah Kielt Costello
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March 21, 2022
A 20-Year Debacle in Afghanistan
Why the American war was destined for catastrophe and tragedy from the start.
Charlie Savage
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March 17, 2022
The War of Words Between Between “Rashka” and Ukraine
On the culture front between “Rashka” and Ukraine.
Benjamin Moser
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March 15, 2022
Are We Still Fighting the Battles of the New Left?
Terence Renaud’s new book compels us to revisit post-war activist movements around the world to understand generational conflicts in the left.
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
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February 28, 2022
The Book Arsenal: A Dispatch From the Cultural Front in Kyiv
Ukrainian publisher Anetta Antonenko has her books, her cats, her language—and her gun.
Benjamin Moser
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February 28, 2022
What Is Fueling Our Century’s Global “Disorder”?
A conversation with historian Helen Thompson about the changes in energy consumption and monetary policy that set the table for today’s geopolitical instability.
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
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February 28, 2022
Let’s Talk About the Taking of Black Land
From Seneca Village to “urban renewal,” the government has claimed Black property—rarely with the “just compensation” promised by the Fifth Amendment.
Elie Mystal
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February 23, 2022
The American Right’s Cult of Victor Orbán
The Hungarian autocrat is proving worryingly influential.
Jeet Heer
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February 22, 2022
A “Simultaneously Hidden and Deliciously Obvious” History of Levantine Cuisine
Writer Antonio Tahhan and Anny Gaul, an assistant professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, discuss a new collection of essays on the region’s food.
Alexia Underwood
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February 10, 2022
How the “American Dream” Became Un-American
When plutocrats defend it, and democrats bewail its passing, it’s time to recall the original meaning of the phrase.
Maria Bustillos