The Gogol Notebook

Remembering Randall Jarrell’s passionate lectures on Russian literature and discovering the pangs of alienation that plagued the poet during his final years

“We Must Not Be Enemies”

Progressives who wish for a less reactionary America could begin by trying to understand the Trump voter

Milton Friedman’s Misadventures in China

The stubborn advocate of free markets tangles with the ideologues of a state-run economy

Full Steam Ahead

Selective Memory

Ideas do not always catch on right away

The Book That Changed America: How Darwin’s Theory of Evolution Ignited a Nation By Randall Fuller

The Life Unlived

On W. G. Sebald and the uncertainties of time

Good Neighbors

When beavers came between us and a farmer down the road, we knew something more was at stake

Spies Like Us

Controlled Experiments

The Soviet Union’s ideological and inefficient view of science

Stalin and the Scientists: A History of Triumph and Tragedy, 1905–1953 By Simon Ings

Homebodies

A life spent mainly in the company of cats has meant relishing the comforts of domesticity and solitude

The Gogol Notebook

Remembering Randall Jarrell’s passionate lectures on Russian literature and discovering the pangs of alienation that plagued the poet during his final years

“We Must Not Be Enemies”

Progressives who wish for a less reactionary America could begin by trying to understand the Trump voter

Milton Friedman’s Misadventures in China

The stubborn advocate of free markets tangles with the ideologues of a state-run economy

Full Steam Ahead

Selective Memory

Ideas do not always catch on right away

The Book That Changed America: How Darwin’s Theory of Evolution Ignited a Nation By Randall Fuller

The Life Unlived

On W. G. Sebald and the uncertainties of time

Good Neighbors

When beavers came between us and a farmer down the road, we knew something more was at stake

Spies Like Us

Controlled Experiments

The Soviet Union’s ideological and inefficient view of science

Stalin and the Scientists: A History of Triumph and Tragedy, 1905–1953 By Simon Ings

Homebodies

A life spent mainly in the company of cats has meant relishing the comforts of domesticity and solitude

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