On February 17, the Navy took delivery of its first refurbished W76 warhead. The W76 is a nuclear payload that sits atop the Trident II missiles carried by America's Ohio-class submarines. As such, it represents an important part of the country's nuclear arsenal. The refurbishmen … | Continue reading
Paul Cantor explains how Mary Shelley’s monster tramples all over the supposed line between high culture and pop culture. | Continue reading
Danny Heitman on the 1842 visit left the novelist profoundly unhappy with America and its capital. | Continue reading
The extraordinary fidelity of Christopher Tolkien, last of the Inklings. | Continue reading
Algis Valiunas on the longing that defined Napoleon, man of action. | Continue reading
Christoph Irmscher on the strange, lifelong discomfort of the author of ‘Siddhartha’ and ‘Steppenwolf.’ | Continue reading
Caitrin Keiper on America’s love affair with amateur advice. | Continue reading
Gary Saul Morson on the literary legacy of 19th-century Russian revolutionary terrorism. | Continue reading
The ferocious incivility Americans have witnessed for decades has arisen largely from the left—and for good reason | Continue reading
He built the first one in 2009. Now there are 75,000 of them. | Continue reading
Anthony Paletta sits with Pritzker Prize winner B.V. Doshi. | Continue reading
Christoph Irmscher reviews Benjamin Balint’s book on the international legal battle over the fate of Kafka’s manuscripts. | Continue reading
The Nebraska senator tweeted about it on Saturday. | Continue reading
Dominic Green on putting the saxophonist’s classic quartet’s ‘lost album’ in its context. | Continue reading
Danny Heitman on why it is so difficult to see the great polymath and his work clearly | Continue reading
STAR WARS RETURNS today with its fifth installment, Attack of the Clones. There will be talk of the Force and the Dark Side and the epic morality of George Lucas's series. But the truth is that from the beginning, Lucas confused the good guys with the bad. The deep lesson of Star … | Continue reading
Trump knows when to hold ‘em and knows when to fold ‘em, knows when to walk away and knows when to run, as Kenny Rogers advised all poker players. He was holding a losing hand when it came to handling the children brought to America illegally by mothers crossing the border illega … | Continue reading
Daniel Sarewitz on the impossibility—and the necessity—of distinguishing science from nonscience. | Continue reading
Gordon S. Wood on Arnold’s path from wartime hero to resentful traitor—and why it’s a story worth remembering. | Continue reading
Pleasure, war, and the mad torment of Lord Byron. | Continue reading
Charlie LeDuff anticipated all the problems that Trump’s election made plain to the rest of us—then he fell into the Hole himself. | Continue reading
It's not that I agreed with their ideas. It's that they encouraged me to think. | Continue reading
The daring exploits and beguiling charm of the 20th century’s greatest travel writer | Continue reading