On the second day of the 1924 Democratic National Convention, at Madison Square Garden, for example, partisan divide reached ...

Does anyone believe in college education anymore? Republicans certainly don’t—a mere 19 percent of them expressed “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in higher education in a Gallup poll ...

"I have no use for politicians," says Fritz Leutwiler, head of the Bank for International Settlements. "They lack the judgment of central bankers" ...

His gray hair was hanging down, awfully long.” “He doesn’t have gray hair.” “Well, it was hanging down, and I thought of you.

A version of this column originally ran in Le Devoir on June 3, 2024. Translated from the French by Elettra Pauletto. For some time now, I’ve been searching for the right moment to correct the ...

I’ve never visited the office of this magazine. Oh, sure, the editors have invited me up—they’re very polite—but I’ve declined, because an unseen office is a useful thing. The imagination can tailor ...

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Like most of my generation, I was brought up on the saying “Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.” Being a highly virtuous child, I believed all that I was told and acquired a ...

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Popular histories present the Boston Tea Party as a rebellion against taxes. Yet what the colonists objected to more than anything was the idea of an all-powerful corporate middleman regulating ...