On December 10, 2025, Australia’s first-in-the-world national social media ban for kids under the age of sixteen went into effect. The Online Safety Amendment Act, as the law was known, had been ...

The Algerian writer Kamel Daoud’s early years as a journalist were particularly notable for his coverage of the country’s civil war—the so-called black decade that began in the early Nineties. He ...

The Knight First Amendment Institute and the Simon and June Li Center for Global Journalism at Columbia University hosted a symposium on September 9 and 10 called “The Forever War and the First ...

For decades, Republicans have waged a war against higher education. The humanities, in their view, are hotbeds of left-wing indoctrination—training students to, in the words of one figurehead, “hate ...

In 1887, L. L. Zamenhof, a Polish physician writing under the pseudonym Doktoro Esperanto, meaning “one who hopes,” published a slim volume laying out the complete grammar rules of a new universal ...

Much of the conversation regarding AI to date has concerned its potential for unleashing cosmic dangers or its nebulous promises of global salvation. In practice, however, plenty of the young people ...

Of all the niche communities birthed by the modern internet, “gooners” might be the most alien, and to many, the most repellent. Gooning, writes Daniel Kolitz in the November issue, is “a new kind of ...

In May 2019, the German Bundestag passed a resolution declaring the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement anti-Semitic. According to the text, the movement’s call to withhold economic support ...

One night in early 1941, when Harry Crews was five years old, his father nearly killed his mother with a twelve-gauge shotgun. Looking back almost four decades later, Crews didn’t find that fact ...

Capital: Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1, by Karl Marx. Edited by Paul North and Paul Reitter. Translated by Paul Reitter. Princeton University Press. 944 pages. $39.95. Our doomed thought ...

A version of this column originally ran in Le Devoir on December 2, 2024. Translated from the French by Elettra Pauletto. It seems former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took Donald Trump ...