The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and principles. One can add ...

Techno-thrillers are the rose-colored glasses through which the national-security state sees itself. Ronald Reagan so admired Tom Clancy’s novel The Hunt for Red October (“my kind of yarn”) that he ...

But by the spring of 2011, he had a feeling that there was a new underappreciated risk: the debt of the federal government ...

From the Archive Timeless stories from our 175-year archive handpicked to speak to the news of the day.

From the Archive Timeless stories from our 175-year archive handpicked to speak to the news of the day.

Hubris: The American Origins of Russia’s War Against Ukraine, by Jonathan Haslam. Harvard University Press. 368 pages. $29.95. The Folly of Realism: How the West Deceived Itself About Russia and ...

From “Who Needs the Democrats?,” which appeared in the July 1970 issue of Harper’s Magazine. The complete article—along with the magazine’s entire 175-year ...

From The Mirror of Simple Souls, which was published in May by Winter Editions. The freedom of love it astounds me When we walk by the furniture stores With their waterbeds as big as houses On the ...

From Issue 44 of the Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly, which was published this spring. Most days are bad days. That’s just the way it is right now. I used to say I wanted to live as long as ...

From a Delta Air Lines passenger’s account of a flight on March 24, as reported by NBC News. When I boarded at Minneapolis–St. Paul tonight, I overheard another passenger tell a flight attendant there ...

From an anonymous message about Rinaldo Nazzaro, the founder of The Base, a white-supremacist group, that circulated on Telegram in April. Unlike what most people and the media think, The Base wasn’t ...

From New Story of the Stone, which was published in June by Columbia University Press. The book, published in Chinese beginning in 1905, is considered one of China’s first works of science fiction. It ...