Book Reviews
Patrick McGoohan and The Prisoner in France
How TV's most individualist character made a communitarian country swoon
The 'White Slavery' Panic
Anti-prostitution activists have been equating sex work with slavery for over a century.
Lost in Political Philosophy
The popular show drops plenty of clues but, can you trust them?
Robert Heinlein at 100
How the science fiction master created the template for our looser, hipper, more pluralist world.
Leftists for Hayek
What happens when a socialist applies the insights of Austrian economics?
The Horrible Truth About Super-Science
Jackson Publick of The Venture Brothers on superheroes, satire, and the '60s
When Piracy Becomes Promotion
How unauthorized copying made Japanese animation profitable in the United States.
The Acid Guru's Long, Strange Trip
A flawed biography paints a bleary picture of Timothy Leary.
Sucking In the Mid-To-Late Seventies
Philip Jenkins disturbs the Carter-Reagan era's sleep of reason.
From Barry's Boys to the Deaniacs
How alternative media have transformed politics on the left and the right.
Neal Stephenson's Past, Present, and Future
The author of the widely praised Baroque Cycle on science, markets, and post-9/11 America.