Renaissance Man
Doctor, writer, musician, and orator: Rudolph Fisher was a scientist and an artist whose métier was Harlem
By Harriet A. Washington Monday, December 1, 2025
Helping Doug
At a tent encampment in Oregon, one man struggles to survive as medical volunteers try to bring a measure of light to dark, uncertain days
By J. Malcolm Garcia Tuesday, September 2, 2025
Jeremy Spoke in Class Today
On guns, MTV, Stephen King, and the nightmare from which we cannot awake
By Paul Crenshaw Monday, June 2, 2025
Tiger Mom
At a forest preserve in India, a writer sees the world anew and learns how to focus her son’s restless mind
By Elizabeth Kadetsky Monday, March 3, 2025
Under a Spell Everlasting
Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain, published a century ago, tells of a world unable to free itself from the cataclysm of war
By Samantha Rose Hill Monday, December 2, 2024
Moondance
Experience the marvel that is
night-blooming tobacco
By Leigh Ann Henion Tuesday, September 3, 2024
A Forgotten Turner Classic
Who was George Eyser, the one-legged German-American gymnast who astounded at the Olympic Games?
By Joshua Prager Monday, June 3, 2024
Tales From an Attic
Suitcases once belonging to residents of a New York State mental hospital tell the stories of long-forgotten lives
By Sierra Bellows Monday, March 4, 2024
In the Forest of the Colobus
At a Gambian nature reserve, troops of endangered monkeys—and numerous other creatures—enact a grand drama that plumbs the mysteries of life, death, and regeneration
By Dawn Starin Monday, December 4, 2023
The Grinberg Affair
One of Mexico’s most curious missing-persons cases involves a scientist who dabbled in the mystical arts
By Ilan Stavans Tuesday, September 5, 2023
Loving Animals to Death
How can we raise them humanely and then butcher them?
By James McWilliams Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Where Are the People?
Evangelical Christianity in America is losing its power—what happened to Orange County’s Crystal Cathedral shows why
By Jim Hinch Friday, December 6, 2013
Leaks and Consequences
Why treating leakers as spies puts journalists at legal risk
By Lincoln Caplan Thursday, September 5, 2013
Laughter and the Brain
Can humor help us better understand the most complex and enigmatic organ in the human body?
By Richard Restak Monday, June 10, 2013
Color Lines
How DNA ancestry testing can turn our notions of race and ethnicity upside down
By W. Ralph Eubanks Friday, March 1, 2013
A New Birth of Reason
Robert Ingersoll, the Great Agnostic, inspired late-19th-century Americans to uphold the founders’ belief in separation of church and state
By Susan Jacoby Friday, December 7, 2012
The Clintons Up Close
A friendship between two couples yields insights into a presidency and a marriage
By Jane Warwick Yoder and Edwin M. Yoder Jr. Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Justice for Sale
How big money is overwhelming judicial elections and corroding our confidence in the courts
By Lincoln Caplan Friday, June 1, 2012
Affirmative Inaction
Opposition to affirmative action has drastically reduced minority enrollment at public universities; private institutions have the power and the responsibility to reverse the trend
By William M. Chace Thursday, December 1, 2011
The Decline of the English Department
How it happened and what could be done to reverse it
By William M. Chace Tuesday, September 1, 2009
