“The American novel offers the dream of escape: away from civilization and into the forest, away from marriage and onto the sea, away from history and back to boyhood”

The Centuries-Old History of the Super El Niño

Today in Supreme Court History: April 12, 1945

How Trump’s Crypto Push Is Undermining American Power

Today in Supreme Court History: April 14, 1873

Today in Supreme Court History: April 13, 1896

Half of Us Have to Put the Knives Away

An English professor burns the midnight oil talking to Microsoft Copilot about Shakespeare, Dickinson, Hawthorne, and a play he’s been working on—and comes away deeply impressed by its literary insights

Is the War in Iran Totally Pointless?

Two Supermassive Black Holes Are on a Cosmic Collision Course

I am Sámi

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

By Closing Moscow's Gulag History Museum, Putin Is Erasing Inconvenient Soviet History

New York Is Holding Back American AI

Black History Theme: A Century of Black History Commemorations

Peter Matthiessen went to Paris to spy and write the Great American Novel. But he was, in his words, “always in the club drinking martinis”

Today in Supreme Court History: February 3, 1812

The Father of American Scarcity Politics

Henry James’s Anti-Revolutionary Novel

Today in Supreme Court History: February 14, 1845

Today in Supreme Court History: March 22, 1957

Today in Supreme Court History: March 8, 1841