In the Henrik Ibsen play The Wild Duck, Dr. Relling dispenses a drug that soothes the most profound self-loathing: livsløgn, a “life-lie,” a form of grandiose self-delusion that lets the pathetic ...

Donald Trump has bent many democratic traditions, but this one, he’s discarded altogether. Trump has been putting his name on buildings since before most Americans were born. He built his political ...

Allison Rayburn, a program coordinator for the Oregon Department of Forestry, told me that in the eastern part of the state, “you can barely see the sun” through the smoke: “It’s just devastation, and ...

If anyone were to be immune to America’s loneliness epidemic, it would be college students. For years, Americans have been ...

Many Americans are waiting for their kid to be “ready” to use the toilet—and waiting, and waiting, and waiting.

Crime shows begin with violated women all the time—the naked, bloodied female corpse is such a staple in the genre’s visual language that viewers hardly notice it. Why is a scene of a young woman ...

He has been heard from on many topics—because Dershowitz is who he is, and pretty much anyone can join Substack, and TV bookers can be hard to resist. Still, he has said little publicly about the ...

I can’t think of one without the other, because September 11 not only transformed how the United States interacted with Muslims abroad and at home; it also changed our collective view of American ...

As the war with Iran drags on, the president is in disagreement with the vice president, military leaders, and long-standing American allies.

W estern military planners do not seem eager to talk about their nightmare scenario, much less prepare for it. But they tend ...

The claim that the president could not possibly do something unethical marks a new frontier of impunity by the administration.

Flailing regimes dehumanize minorities to distract from their failures. When the economy collapses or a war goes badly, they ...