Sea Power: Then and Now
June 26, 2024
Evan Mawdsley— Sea power is back in the news. In April 2022, the cruiser Moskva was sunk by Ukrainian anti-ship missiles. Since last November, American and British warships have actively… READ MORE
Category: Current Affairs
Is Our President a National Security Threat?
June 17, 2024
Harold Hongju Koh— If re-elected, could President Trump, by a single tweet, withdraw America from the United Nations, NATO, and every treaty and international organization to which the U.S. belongs?… READ MORE
The Puzzle of Roe v. Wade
June 14, 2024
It may be a bit of mystery why we care so much about Roe. The Court has issued other blockbuster opinions, and they have mostly faded into obscurity. Debates about… READ MORE
Our Palestine Question: A Conversation with Geoffrey Levin
June 11, 2024
Our Palestine Question: Israel and American Jewish Dissent, 1948-1978 is a new history of the American Jewish relationship with Israel focused on its most urgent and sensitive issue: the question… READ MORE
What the Founders Didn’t Know—But Their Children Did—About the Constitution
June 10, 2024
Alison L. LaCroix— Conflicts between the federal government and the states dominate our current moment in American law and politics. From controversies over who governs at the southern border, to… READ MORE
America’s Reckoning with Gaza at Home and the Great Rupture in International Relations
June 4, 2024
Fawaz A. Gerges— In May 1963, in Birmingham, Alabama, more than a thousand school students participated in the Children’s March intended to force the city to reckon with the demands… READ MORE
Plastic Money: The Rise of Credit Cards and the Banks that Created Them
May 21, 2024
Sean H. Vanatta— Big banks charge the highest credit card interest rates, at least according to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). In February, the agency reported that some of the largest… READ MORE
How U.S. Policy in Yemen Went Tragically Wrong
May 13, 2024
Alexandra Stark— On October 8, 2016, an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition struck a crowded funeral hall in Sanaa, Yemen, killing at least 140 people and wounding an additional 600,… READ MORE
Writing a History of Ignorance
April 30, 2024
Peter Burke— Since the 1990s, a new kind of history has been flourishing: the history of knowledge—or better, the history of different kinds of knowledge, knowledges in the plural. Turning… READ MORE
Fashion or Function?
April 24, 2024
Rachel S. Gross— In the 1970s, outdoor clothing and equipment catalogs were full of products that might have seemed completely unrelated to the outdoors a decade earlier. One old-school REI… READ MORE
A Conversation with Trudier Harris on Bigger: A Literary Life