Sixty years on, Walter M. Miller Jr.’s post-apocalyptic novel, A Canticle for Leibowitz, offers a poignant rebuke to the political extremists of our own time.

There’s nothing intelligent to say about a massacre, wrote Kurt Vonnegut of his book about the firebombing of Dresden. So why are we still reading it a half-century later?

Another year, another round of prognostication. TAI editors speculate about what 2019 has in store.

Almost 70 years on, Ray Bradbury’s dire warnings in Fahrenheit 451 should still make all of us uncomfortable.

Andrew Sullivan is shocked and appalled that President Obama now seems committed to stretching coalition involvement in Libya beyond the narrow confines of the UN Security Council resolution:It’s so surreal, so discordant with what the president has told the American people, so fantastically contrary to everything he campaigned on, that I will simply wait for […]

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