What America Stood For

Where people are desperate.

Why Milton Still Matters

Paradise Lost can still speak.

A Fictive Flight Above Real Mars

PC Run Wild

The Academy’s Assault on Intellectual Diversity.

How Russia Recruited Ernest Hemingway

Papa was just one of their more high profile collaborators.

A Delightful Dictionary for Canadian English

A decidedly real entity.

In Search of Excitement

An irretrievably exhausted and dying genre.

World GO Championship

To determine the strongest Go player in the world.

In Defence of Hierarchy

It's time we remembered.

The Rising Tide of Educated Aliteracy

Discussing books you haven’t read has become a badge of honour.

Negative Emotions Are Key to Well-Being

Essential for mental health.

Intellectuals for Trump

A rogue group of conservative thinkers tries to build a governing ideology around a President who disdains ideology.

They Could Be Heroes

Today's biggest novelists are throwbacks to a simpler time.

This Article Won’t Change Your Mind

The facts on why facts alone can’t fight false beliefs.

Celebrating Food and Wine in Bordeaux

OK. It’s my second favourite wine region.

The Golden Spruce

Grant Hadwin got a chainsaw and did something terrible.

Hemingway Reports Spain

Ernest Hemingway in the Spanish Civil War.

The Expendables

The dark romance of the French Foreign Legion.

Joe Jones: Roomba inventor. Roboticist. Vindicated pioneer.

Joe was my roommate at M.I.T. Kindred souls.