And, you know, the nice thing about President Trump is he knows that.” Vought is now in charge of the budget machine, eager to succeed in defeating what he calls an “amorphous oligarchy, ...

This is to say they get worked by people living in communities that tend to be of a conservative bent, meaning that they are full of people with recalcitrant attachments to rural ways of life, who ...

Liberal internationalism died in the ruins of Gaza and Beirut. Donald Trump’s return to office has only put a tin plate on the coffin. The doctrine lost all legitimacy through its dependence on ...

From The Dream Hotel, which will be published this month by Pantheon. Morning light silvers the glass-brick windows of the Safe-X library. A sign taped to the wall above the return shelf says quiet.

From the introduction to a reissue of Martin Amis’s novel London Fields, which was published in November by Vintage, in Britain. The curse of Englishness is something whose magnitude we are still ...

From Pause the Document, which will be published this month by Nightboat Books.

From “Brains in Washington,” which appeared in the March 1936 issue of Harper’s Magazine. The complete article—along with the magazine’s entire 174-year ...

From I’m Always Looking Up and You’re Jumping, which will be published next year by Random House.

Percentage of Ukrainians who said in 2022 that their country should keep fighting until it defeats Russia ...

Number of different forms of torture the Syrian government is suspected of having used during the country’s civil war : 72 Factor by which women are more likely than men… ...

Before going up Millstone Hill the crowd waited in a field for darkness to fall. As the long summer day trailed on, they twirled colored ribbons and tossed devil sticks in the air, a jam band played, ...