Our national parks are struggling
Summer travel is just ramping up, but our country’s pride and joy is being put through the wringer. Since President...
In Berlin, Cars Are a Culture War Flashpoint
Germans, so the old stereotype goes, love their cars. But traffic in their capital is driving many of them mad...
Looking for Blackness in a Personal, Private Way
Twenty-five springs ago, the Studio Museum in Harlem opened a new-talent group exhibition called “Freestyle” and, overnight, sent a generation...
Queen Elizabeth was eager for disgraced ex-Prince Andrew to become trade envoy, documents show
Documents show Queen Elizabeth II was “very keen” that the former Prince Andrew be given the job of UK trade...
A Defense of a Liberal Arts Education in the Age of A.I.
What’s really driving the humanities crisis in higher education? As enrollment and reading decline, I asked Jennifer Frey, a professor...
SpaceX’s investor pitch reads like a sci-fi manifesto
Between pictures of rockets, planets, and satellites, SpaceX's recently dropped S-1 includes a lot of sci-fi-sounding language. SpaceXSpaceX's IPO paperwork...
The Brothers Who Made Virginia Woolf the Talk of Cannes
One of the most exciting movies playing during the Cannes Film Festival this year isn’t in the official lineup. Instead,...
What the 18th Century Can Teach the 21st
On the eve of the nation’s 250th anniversary, it might be tempting to assume that we’ve run out the clock...
Science Group Seeks Public Hearing for N.S.F. Nominee
The nation’s largest general science group called on Thursday for the Senate to hold a public hearing on the nomination...
Are dodos and mammoths coming back from extinction? Don’t count on it
My inbox started filling up with the supposedly groundbreaking news early Tuesday, breathless news articles about a biological breakthrough that...
