Crashes, Crises, Coaching?
May 17, 2023
Harold James— Economics is not homogenous, especially at the moment. Orthodoxy is challenged, heterodoxy is in, there are calls for new textbooks and New Economic Thinking. Each different style of… READ MORE
Category: Essays
Clocks, Calendars, and Schedules
April 10, 2023
David M. Henkin— In the ever-changing world of white-collar labor, it is the small touches that signal dystopia. Much of the enduring resonance of Mike Judge’s 1999 classic comedy film… READ MORE
Where Next for the World’s First Author?
March 24, 2023
Sophus Helle— Enheduana is the first known author in the history of world literature. She was a royal princess and high priestess who lived in the 23rd century BCE in… READ MORE
Interests, Not Ideology, Should Drive America’s Approach to China
March 16, 2023
Ryan Hass— Ideologues prefer to understand the U.S.-China relationship as a contest between good versus evil. They take comfort in clean divisions between democracies versus autocracies. They like parallels between… READ MORE
“My Dearest James”: Agha Shahid Ali and James Merrill
March 15, 2023
Manan Kapoor— Sometime in the 1990s, Agha Shahid Ali wrote a poem about the Bosnian War and sent it to James Merrill, who responded: “There is nothing that you can… READ MORE
The Difference a Single Verse Can Make
March 14, 2023
David Bentley Hart— When I first set out to translate the New Testament, my aim was to return as faithfully as possible to the original Greek, and to its ambiguities…. READ MORE
The Tripolar Problem
March 13, 2023
Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr.— The past year has witnessed the continuing decline in U.S.-China relations. Last February, Chinese president Xi Jinping declared his friendship with Vladimir Putin had “no limits,”… READ MORE
Women Had to Fight the Idea of “Woman” Before They Could Gain a Political Voice
March 1, 2023
Lillian Faderman— On March 1, 2022, President Joe Biden delivered his first State of the Union Address to a joint session of Congress and 38.2 million T.V. viewers. Seated at… READ MORE
New Directions Toward a Clean Energy Future
February 23, 2023
Daniel S. Cohan— After reaffirming the Paris Agreement on his first day in office, President Biden in November 2021 issued a national strategy for achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by… READ MORE
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