Had I known that Aesop’s fables were so unhinged, I would’ve turned to them long ago. Having encountered your standard-issue tortoise and hare, boy who cried wolf, town mouse and country mouse, et al.

In the summer of 2023, California legislators approved a bill banning discrimination on the grounds of caste. Defined in the bill as “an individual’s perceived position in a system of social ...

A version of this column originally ran in Le Devoir on July 2, 2024. Translated from the French by Elettra Pauletto. It may seem paradoxical that a porn star could arouse optimism amid an election ...

As a demonstration that politics have been refashioned as show business, the Democratic National Convention was beyond compare. Delegates chanted the requisite slogans—“We’re not going back,” “Do ...

"I have no use for politicians," says Fritz Leutwiler, head of the Bank for International Settlements. "They lack the judgment of central bankers" ...

From Ignorance and Bliss: On Wanting Not to Know, which will be published in December by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

"Monarchy offers a fantasy of national communion while, by its very existence, making it more unlikely to ever come to pass." ...

Before going up Millstone Hill the crowd waited in a field for darkness to fall. As the long summer day trailed on, they twirled colored ribbons and tossed devil sticks in the air, a jam band played, ...

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From an introduction to the audiobook edition of J. F. Martel’s Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice, which was released in May by Hachette Audio. Toward the end of… ...

On a damp, gray afternoon in April, I took my daughter with me to vote in the New York Democratic primary. After a long Tuesday, she was keen to get… ...