More Elections, Less Democracy
September 6, 2024
Nic Cheeseman and Brian Klaas— The greatest political paradox of our time is this: there are more elections than ever before, and yet the world is becoming less democratic. Nowadays,… READ MORE
Category: Excerpts
The Petit Network
August 16, 2024
Helen Fry— Twenty-two-year-old Gabrielle Petit was formally recruited by an officer of the British Service in the summer of 1915 while crossing the Channel by boat to England.1 The Belgian had… READ MORE
What’s Happening to America’s Farms?
August 9, 2024
Brooks Lamb— Not long after I settled into a socially distanced spot outside the tent, the auctioneer began to work. He explained the sale rules and answered questions from the… READ MORE
How Did Oscar Hammerstein’s Childhood Affect His Work?
August 2, 2024
Laurie Winer— Oscar Hammerstein II seems to have been born with a healthy sense of self-worth, which he maintained for most of his sixty-five years. But he never developed excessive… READ MORE
Greek Beauty: Surprise, It’s Not What You Think
July 29, 2024
Tony Spawforth— To call someone a ‘Greek god’ is to see them as ‘a paragon of male beauty’, or, more specifically, as having ‘a very well-built, athletic body’. Annually since… READ MORE
From 9/11 to 9/11: The Widening of the Atlantic
July 5, 2024
Timothy Garton Ash— As our small group of European experts stood with President George W. Bush on the Truman balcony of the White House one fine May day in 2001,… READ MORE
The Archive’s Main Entrance
June 27, 2024
Alan Mikhail— Between the street and the building was a large black wrought-iron fence. On the inside of this one of Egypt’s millions of border markers, two paths led into… READ MORE
Richard Siken’s Poems of Obsession and Love
June 21, 2024
Selected by Nobel Prize laureate and competition judge Louise Glück as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, Richard Siken’s Crush is a powerful collection of poems driven by obsession and… READ MORE
Selected Poems from The Year of Blue Water
June 18, 2024
The Year of Blue Water is the winner of the 2018 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize and the 2020 Lambda Literary Awards finalist for the transgender poetry category. Between… 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
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