Brian Doherty, Historian of the Libertarian Movement, Dead at 57

Police Investigate German Historian for Hitler-Putin Meme

The levels of elite cultural esteem once lauded on Bellow and Updike are gone forever. Prestige fiction is dead — and that isn’t entirely a bad thing

How Chile's Free Market Miracle Survived a Resurgent Left

Mobilizing Africa’s Capital for African Development

Brickbat: Blocked and Reported

User-Friendly Self-Deception: Philosopher Amélie Rorty on the Value of Our Delusions and the Antidote to the Self-Defeating Ones

Judge VanDyke: "This is a case about swinging dicks."

In Space, Regulators Seek To Boldly Go Where No Bureaucrat Has Gone Before

The Great American Condo Crisis

Here’s How Snakes Defy Gravity to Stand Up

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

How Robert Crumb Inspired the Underground Comix Movement

António Lobo Antunes, the Portuguese novelist who captured his generation’s disillusionment with the war, is dead. He was 83

The Long Civil Rights Movement

Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Is Reported Dead

Why Khamenei Is Dead

In publications like the New Masses and The Anvil, the proletarian literary movement had a message for Ezra Pound: “See you in hell”

Blind Refugee Found Dead 5 Days After Release From Border Patrol Custody in Buffalo

Multilateralism Is Not Dead Yet

In 2002, the college essay was declared dead. More than three years and hundreds of billions of dollars later, the college essay lives

Scientists spot never-before-seen shock wave around dead star