Frederick Wiseman’s documentaries, or “movies” as he likes to call them, are known for being long. His most recent, about a group of high-end restaurants run by a family in France, hits the four-hour ...

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It’s been a hard year for the Democrats. Well before concerns over President Joe Biden’s age rocked the presidential campaign, the party was forced to confront a grim political reality: voters did not ...

During the past decade, social media has amplified the voices of white supremacists and anti-Semites, but it is Trump who has lent them legitimacy and emboldened them to come out of the shadows. Peter ...

An interview with Dylan J. Riley on Trump and the state of American democracy. John Ganz ▪ October 1, 2025 J.D. Vance hosts The Charlie Kirk Show from the White House on September 15 (Doug ...

He has been called one of the most original political thinkers of the twentieth century. “If academic citations and internet references are any guide,” one historian pointed out, “he is more ...

In 2018, tech writer Douglas Rushkoff met with a handful of hedge fund billionaires to talk about the future of technology. But they were actually most interested in enlisting his help in filling in ...

In early July, the Department of Homeland Security indulged in a little art appreciation on X, where it posted a Thomas Kinkade painting, Morning Pledge, for its 2.6 million followers to admire.

Two hundred and fifty years after Beethoven’s birth, we’re faced with something of a paradox: his music is known and beloved all over the world, probably more than that of any other composer, even as ...

One of the most vibrant intellectual discussions in China this year began with a tweet on Weibo, China’s premier micro-blogging service and anointed online town square. Economist Hua Sheng had just ...

This article is followed by a response by Andrew F. March, along with Michael Walzer’s reply. To read the exchange, click here. In the three and a half decades since the Iranian revolution, I have ...

An uncompromising champion of the labor movement, sharp critic of authoritarianism both left and right, and early proponent of “intersectionality,” French activist and writer Daniel Guérin is an ...