How a right-wing mania is destroying the social fabric of communities across America

Valparaiso University’s student body is shrinking and its dormitories are aging. But is selling the campus museum’s most famous artwork the right solution to the problem?

Recent “sensitivity” edits to the author’s beloved yet unabashedly disagreeable novels are all about maintaining a lucrative intellectual property. But what difference can a few changed words really make?

At the start of its third season, the show’s plucky underdog premise is wearing thin.

Consulting firms may promise expertise and efficiency, but their effects on public agencies have been disastrous, Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington explain.

Jenny Odell wants us to forget hours, minutes, and seconds and live with a different sense of time.

Films from Charlotte Wells and Lukas Dhont aim for intimate, almost imperceptible moments of connection rather than a grand affirmation.

Alice Diop’s courtroom drama is a story of aspiration and cruelty in a racist society.

For nearly a century, Americans have been throwing the term around—without agreeing what that means.

Adapted from a bestseller, “Daisy Jones” was premium intellectual property. The show never had to be good, just marketable.

A conversation with Zadie Smith about her new play, “The Wife of Willesden,” adapting Chaucer, her early influences, and making art in a pandemic

How conservatives made him their icon and distorted his ideas

Our current system defines health as the ability to work. Those who can’t are abandoned and exploited.

Was the nineteenth-century Midwest “the most advanced democratic society that the world had seen”?

Generation Z is struggling. Is it because they’re too “fragile,” as some pundits claim, or because universities are increasingly acting like human resources departments?

The rise of “Lean In”–style feminism—and the women who fought for a better alternative

The most satisfying—and most frustrating—features of HBO’s hit show are the future of TV.

What would it mean to treat other living creatures fairly?

“The Philosophy of Modern Song” was never going to offer a systematic analysis of great music.

He fell from favor after the disaster of the Iraq War. But he was always biding his time.