A conversation with Richard Aldous on the origins of modern identity politics.

A new book by Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff gives good advice but undermines its entire project in the process.

Tom Wolfe contained multitudes, too—some of them, at least, lasting contributions to American literature.

Abbas has cut a Trumpian political figure since long before the presidency was a twinkle in The Donald’s eye.

A plan for maintaining and extending America’s edge in innovation and technology.

The revelations of a “resistance within” the Trump Administration are surprising in their details. But what is happening now was always inherent in the idea of a Trump presidency.

On the hundredth anniversary of his birth, Leonard Bernstein’s artistic legacy is as rich and impossible to circumscribe as ever.

The two men accused of poisoning Sergey Skripal are ready for their close-up.

Seventeen years in, the war in Afghanistan presents a credible threat of disaster for all parties involved—or a settlement that could end the fighting on terms we can accept.

Rigged elections and brutal crackdowns cannot disguise the public’s falling trust in the Kremlin.