Jansson’s temptation is one of Sweden’s tastiest exports.
Politics
Poetry makes nothing happen, W.H. Auden said in 1939, when words must have seemed especially impotent; but cinema is another…
There’s something uniquely American in both its wanton borrowing from existing tradition and its naked admission of artificiality.
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on whether to tell young children the truth about Christmas myths.
How much should we mitigate our young ones at social gatherings?
Bob Kaufman’s “Abomunist Manifesto” (1959) is a joke about political proclamations, and it is one of the funniest poems you’ll…
Tamar Shamir and Mohamed Abu Jafar tried for years to bring Jews and Palestinians together. Now they wonder if they…
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on the duty citizens have to support one another, even across political divides.
U.S. taxpayers spent millions to fund what was supposed to be a revolution in accountability. What went wrong?