Maker of Magazines

Henry Luce had a restless mind and a preternatural feel for the national pulse

The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century By Alan Brinkley

Growing Up in a Troubled Neighborhood

Kai Bird’s Middle East Memories and Meditations

Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis By Kai Bird

Afghanistan: ‘So This Is Paktya’

How ready are our allies to secure their own country?

An Assassin’s Tale

In the footsteps of the murderer of Martin Luther King Jr.

Hellhound On His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin By Hampton Sides

Do Head Meds Make Us Sicker?

The argument that says they do has problems of its own

Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America By Robert Whitaker

Spaced Out in the City

Profit

Mayhem Across the Border

A Mexican city where homicide is the new normal

Murder City: Ciudad Juárez and the Global Economy’s New Killing Fields By Charles Bowden

Lost Classics

An address delivered in 2009 to graduates in classics at UC Berkeley

A Joyless Noise

Two pleas for making life a whole lot quieter

The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want: A Book About NoiseBy Garret Keizer / Zero Decibels: The Quest for Absolute Silence By George Michelsen

Life Savers on the Cheap

A Geographer Walks into a Bar …

Wild about Hairy

Brooklyn in Bloom

This One can Hold Water

Far from the Manhattan Crowd

What the Earth Knows

Understanding the concept of geologic time and some basic science can give a new perspective on climate change and the energy future

All Style, No Substance

What’s wrong with the State Department’s public diplomacy effort

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