From “What Is Monopoly?,” which appeared in the June 1938 issue of Harper’s Magazine. The complete article—along with the magazine’s entire 174-year archive ...

Had I known that Aesop’s fables were so unhinged, I would’ve turned to them long ago. Having encountered your standard-issue tortoise and hare, boy who cried wolf, town mouse and country mouse, et al.

From V13: Chronicle of a Trial, which will be published next month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Carrère compiled the following text from the testimony of victims at the trial… ...

From an exchange on Signal between Mike Howell, the executive director of the Oversight Project at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, and SiegedSec, a group of self-described “gay ...

In the summer of 2023, California legislators approved a bill banning discrimination on the grounds of caste. Defined in the bill as “an individual’s perceived position in a system of social ...

A version of this column originally ran in Le Devoir on July 2, 2024. Translated from the French by Elettra Pauletto. It may seem paradoxical that a porn star could arouse optimism amid an election ...