Rise of the Samurai Lawyers
An economist explores how a stable and relatively just legal order emerged in medieval Japan.
An economist explores how a stable and relatively just legal order emerged in medieval Japan.
The spread of Ultimate Frisbee testifies to a kind of Western soft power in the Middle East, one far friendlier than bombs or bullets.
Journalists increasingly see their job as protecting their preferred candidates, not asking tough questions.
By prosecuting the website's founders, the government chilled free speech online and ruined lives.
Can't Americans all just get along? Maybe we can't—and perhaps we shouldn't have to.
To Rose Wilder Lane, African Americans' achievements were all the more amazing given their disadvantaged starting point.
Dorr Legg saw the government as homosexuals' enemy.
The obstacles to having more babies can't be moved by tax incentives or subsidized child care.
The modern presidency is a divider, not a uniter. It has become far too powerful to be anything else.
Imported tea was required for decades to pass a literal taste test before it could be sold in the United States.
Hasan Minhaj’s stand-up tests the boundaries of fact and fiction.
Gov. Ron DeSantis’ crusade to end America's greatest success in private governance.
The best pizza isn't made in New York, Chicago, or New Haven. It's made on assembly lines.
When computers came to offices, bosses found a new way to worry that workers were wasting time.
Popular podcasts and shows portray crime as salacious and sexy, failing ordinary victims in the process.
Fault lines emerge as government gets involved in America's weirdest, fastest-growing sport.
Sexual minorities aren't the only ones who love to wave identity flags.
Maria Montessori valued independence and experimentation in a time of authoritarianism.
Why are so many filmgoers and politicians eager to prop up baseball's boondoggles?
While the FDA keeps experimental treatments out of reach, the spoonie world makes a diagnosis into an identity.
But it doesn't have to be the future of the GOP or the country.
The consequences of our obsession with urban dystopias and utopias
Social media, streaming, and a new era of digital self-censorship
Taking humanity from Earth to the stars isn't easy.
In barely a century, capitalism led to more productivity "than have all preceding generations together," Marx and Friedrich Engels argued.
The author of Their Eyes Were Watching God defies easy political categorization.
Nikole Hannah-Jones' new book sidesteps scholarly critics while quietly deleting previous factual errors.
Blood, sweat, and tears in Naomi Novik's Scholomance novels.
Countless works of art are locked in museum basements. Why not put them back on the open market?
How a generation was redpilled by a nerd power fantasy about defining yourself in the digital age
The "good old days" weren't all that good—but they're still messing with politics.
Soviet rule promised abundance. Instead it brought misery and starvation.
Happy 50th birthday to Muswell Hillbillies, a concept album about nostalgia, conformity, and the evils of urban renewal programs.
One of Richard Wright's best books went unpublished in his lifetime, due to "unbearable" scenes of police brutality. Now at last it is in print.
A generation of activists has imbued words and sounds with superstition.
The government tried to stabilize the nation's food supply 80 years ago. Its efforts backfired.
The women's liberation movement has gotten tied to mass incarceration. It needs to break free.
Samuel Cummings built a global weapons empire in Washington, D.C.'s shadow.
Like the Hays Code and Waldorf Statement before it, new diversity requirements are Tinseltown's way of asserting cultural dominance through self-policing.
When fabulous clothes are outlawed, only outlaws will be fabulous.
Armed with the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the far-reaching guarantees of liberty and equality that they contained, Douglass took the fight directly to the slaveholders.
COVID-19 upended the NBA, the NFL, the NHL, and MLB. How the professional sports leagues responded offers a glimpse into our future.
The typecasting of builders as villains might help explain why NIMBYs so often win the policy battles over urban growth and development.
While Europe was in revolt, America had its own Free Soil revolution of 1848.
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