Articles of Note

Science wars, Seinfeld, Sokal: What was postmodernism? No other idea from the humanities had so major, if murky, an influence... more »

New Books

Pundit on a pilgrimage. For David Brooks, a midlife awakening yielded a most unexpected insight into himself: “I realized I was a religious person”... more »

Essays & Opinions

The origins of beach reading. A 19th-century invention, it was for “airy, buoyant, salty, sunny, breezy” books. Or, it was the consumption of “pestiferous trash”... more »