A battle that should never have been fought inspired Shakespeare and shaped the collective mentalities of the first modern nation-states.

How the triumphalist mutation of liberalism and the anti-liberal politics of identity have together brought us to the age of exhaustion.

A conversation with Norman Blake, direct from Sulfur Springs, Georgia, somewhatly about American acoustic guitar music.

Princeton philosopher Harry Frankfurt, famous for his best-selling 2005 book On Bullshit, takes on inequality.

Regulating the influence of television in U.S. politics is becoming less important than regulating the capacious influence of the internet—but the available methods are not remotely comparable.