Web Essays

What the work of women survivors can tell us about the horrors of life in the camps

A personal encounter with J. Robert Oppenheimer

Simone Weil’s thoughts on the unmaking of the self

The future of men’s tennis is now

What we’re missing about the SCOTUS decision on race-conscious admissions

Adam Smith on the faculty that makes us human

A turn through the musical museum of folk song and family

A writer who relished the extremes in life and found humor in the darkest regions

My father never got to tell his story at the war crimes trials at Nuremberg—it’s taken decades for the truth to come out

What does the advent of ChatGPT mean for already beleaguered teachers?