What if she found out that that she’d raised the kind of girl who “necked and petted and flew to New York,” whose “pants were wet with the sticky white filth of desire”? “She’s not my daughter,” Plath ...

One of the most commonly encountered claims about international politics today concerns the transition from a “Westphalian” to a “post-Westphalian” era. Writers across a wide range of media and ...

Sometime late in the 1960s, in the countryside of Vermont, my sister and I saw in the evening sky three round lights, apparently far-off, perfectly still and unchanging, each the size of a thumbnail ...

Gay critic Leo Bersani, who died in February, was known for his sharp opening sentences. In a career spanning eighteen books and numerous essays, the Berkeley professor, who passed away in February at ...

Nine months into Donald Trump’s second term, MAGA appears more powerful than ever. Trump’s war on the pillars of civil society have scored real victories. Several elite universities have been cowed; ...

“A mental pentathlete.” That’s how Joyelle McSweeney describes the genre-defying Canadian writer Anne Carson—the winner of ...

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“Forget the social workers. Forget the shrinks. Forget the ACLU. That’s the way it really is.” —Joe Arpaio I was interviewing Joe Arpaio in 1995 for a book I had planned to write on chain gangs. I ...

Listen to a reading of this essay, courtesy of curio.io: On the afternoon of April 4, 1968, James Baldwin was relaxing by the pool with actor Billy Dee Williams in a rented house in Palm Springs.

Susan Neiman is a moral and political philosopher and Director Emeritus of the Einstein Forum in Germany. Her latest book is Call It Evil: Understanding the Trump Era.

The years from the late 1960s through the middle of the 1970s were remarkable ones for American movies. In the words of critic David Thompson, it was “the decade when movies mattered.” With the ...

Yael Tamir, author of Liberal Nationalism, is a former member of the Knesset and was Professor of Philosophy at Tel Aviv University from 1989-1999.