Frederick Wiseman’s documentaries, or “movies” as he likes to call them, are known for being long. His most recent, about a group of high-end restaurants run by a family in France, hits the four-hour ...

It’s been a hard year for the Democrats. Well before concerns over President Joe Biden’s age rocked the presidential campaign, the party was forced to confront a grim political reality: voters did not ...

South Korea’s Candlelight Revolution was the culmination of a sustained protest movement that brought out over 16 million people—almost a third of the country’s population. Alexis Dudden ▪ Fall ...

Cornell University Press, 2020, 216 pp. One day a villager was walking by Akşehir Lake when he saw Nasreddin Hodja pouring a bowl of yogurt into the water. “What are you doing, Hodja?” the villager ...

When James C. Scott died earlier this summer at the age of eighty-seven, tributes to the scholar poured in from a bewildering variety of sources. Like members of a fractious clan rushing to the family ...

One of the most vibrant intellectual discussions in China this year began with a tweet on Weibo, China’s premier micro-blogging service and anointed online town square. Economist Hua Sheng had just ...

Yale University Press, 2014, 248 pp. God has been through a very rough patch over the last 500 years. Once the Creator and Ruler of the universe, He fell into a long and precipitous decline with the ...

This article is followed by a response by Andrew F. March, along with Michael Walzer’s reply. To read the exchange, click here. In the three and a half decades since the Iranian revolution, I have ...

The government of Guam has appointed a Commission on Decolonization, but U.S. control means that all of the island’s options, including the status quo, have substantial downsides. Van Jackson ▪ ...

In early July, the Department of Homeland Security indulged in a little art appreciation on X, where it posted a Thomas Kinkade painting, Morning Pledge, for its 2.6 million followers to admire.