Reflections, Redirections

Brenda Ann Kenneally’s sprawling chronicle of life in Troy, New York, is a tribute to her subjects and an indictment of our times.

“Prathet ku mi” has reopened the most sensitive wound of Thailand’s past for a new generation.

A scientist’s unfettered curiosity leads him to investigate the physics at work in some very odd corners of the natural world.

The conservative virtues remain real virtues, the conservative insights real insights, and the conservative temperament an indispensable internal gyro keeping a country stable and sane.

The separation of families at the border, climate change, and various progressive causes have galvanized young Christians.

In March 2018, China’s state-controlled internet, amid rumors that North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un was secretly visiting China, rendered the term “fatty” unsearchable. In China, “Fatty the Third” is a derogatory nickname for Kim, who inherited his position from his father and grandfather. This occurred shortly after Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party…

Millions of lives were at stake. Hillary Clinton was on board. Money poured in. And yet the big aims behind an effort to tackle the plague of third-world cooking fires has produced only modest gains.

In college football, it’s only wrong if you get caught.

Kanye West wants freedom—white freedom.

As a young social psychologist, she played by the rules and won big: an influential study, a viral TED talk, a prestigious job at Harvard. Then, suddenly, the rules changed.

Capitalism excels at innovation but is failing at maintenance, and for most lives it is maintenance that matters more

Economists show increased research efforts are yielding decreasing returns

You were establishing roots for a suburban life I would never be able to provide.

During one of the more infamous moments in Plato’s Republic, Socrates suggests that the ideal . . . .