April 2024

“My divorce was final fifteen years ago. But the Catholic Church, to which I’m a recent convert, considers me still married.”

Declan Ryan's first full-length book of poetry is ambivalent about boxing and passionate about its honesty.

"I had seen two partial eclipses in recent years. They impressed me at the time. But they were trifles compared to what I saw on April 8."

It is a mistake to see Trump only as a political leader. In 2024, he is also a cult for Evangelicals who no longer want to be Christians.

Neoliberalism is doomed. Could a new model of social democracy replace it?

Former UC Berkeley chancellor Nicholas B. Dirks discusses the crisis in the humanities and the purpose of higher education in the 21st century.

In person, Klimt’s landscapes are spaces of exquisite abundance. But a new Klimt exhibition at New York’s Neue Galerie underwhelms.

Poland shows how Catholicism and liberal democracy are not at odds.

Poet and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini believed in the importance of being yourself, which means being unrecognizable.