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 ...

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 ...

As a demonstration that politics have been refashioned as show business, the Democratic National Convention was beyond compare. Delegates chanted the requisite slogans—“We’re not going back,” “Do ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

From Ignorance and Bliss: On Wanting Not to Know, which will be published in December by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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Percentage change since 2002 in the portion of U.S. high school seniors taking the ACT who received perfect scores ...

From the Archive Timeless stories from our 174-year archive handpicked to speak to the news of the day.

Before going up Millstone Hill the crowd waited in a field for darkness to fall. As the long summer day trailed on, they twirled colored ribbons and tossed devil sticks in the air, a jam band played, ...