Like many Americans, I had become an admirer of the worldview taken by Canadian prime minister Mark Carney, which is ...

We will never know how many died during the Butlerian Jihad. Was it millions? Billions? Trillions, perhaps? It was a fantastic rage, a great revolt that spread like wildfire, consuming everything in ...

In July of last year, Donald Trump issued an executive order establishing the Make America Beautiful Again Commission, which claimed that his administration would “prioritize responsible conservation, ...

The U.S. president and the rapper Vanilla Ice sat together at a UFC fight in Miami while the vice president announced that the U.S. and Iran had not succeeded at reaching a peace deal; The Trump ...

But he was also aware of the violence and humiliation that an absence of discretion could invite. He maintained a certain ...

As the anti-immigrationist far right continues to surge in French polls ahead of next year’s presidential election, it seems ...

Whenever a friend wrote me reporting a successful shit, I wondered: Why are you telling me this? Good manners dictated I ...

Last year, a Japanese sumo wrestler named Onosato became the seventy-fifth athlete to be awarded the sport’s highest honor: the title of yokozuna, or grand champion. His achievement was a particular ...

When I was a girl, my Bajan grandmother insisted that my older sister and I recite Psalm 23 every night before bed. I didn’t yet know what death was, but I knew that there was something sinister and ...

“The West as we knew it,” Ursula von der Leyen claimed earlier this year, “no longer exists.” It is not necessary to explore what the president of the European Commission means by “the West” to ...

It was in 2018 that Aaron Slodov came to believe that America had lost its soul. Slodov, an unassuming sandy-haired millennial from Cleveland, had spent much of his professional life working out ...

On a hot day last June, near the shores of Lake Suwa, in the mountains of central Japan, hundreds of spectators gathered around an earthen stage roughly two feet high and two dozen feet wide. The ...