The Best of The Nation

Young people today are already driving less, but breaking the country’s car-dependency will require unprecedented investment in infrastructure and public transit.

Billionaires dress like the guy next door, which elides the fact of our ever-worsening inequality.

The beloved author’s books are being edited by their publisher to suit contemporary sensibilities. That robs us of the author’s vision—and any sense of history.

In his postmodern epic Solenoid, the Romanian novelist offers us an extraordinary and baroque elaboration of a subjectivity less than ordinary.

«he doesn’t live his life but rather “constructed” it.»

Alexandra Lange's Meet Me by the Fountain recovers the forgotten past and the still hopeful future of the American shopping mall.

A century of recorded music has culminated in the infinite archive of streaming platforms. But is it really better for listeners?

As raves took over the world, American electronic music kept growing in the places it began.

The meaning of the amendment has been so badly mangled that our only choice is to start over with something that allows for real gun control.

The judiciary that protesters say protects their freedom is a key architect of the apartheid regime that has stolen so much freedom from Palestinians.

How did the genre of self-help go from one focused on collective empowerment to one serving the class hierarchy as it stands?

In the wake of changing legal standards recognizing the self-determination of gender identity, transgender Pakistanis are taking steps to live openly.

What did the creator of the Whole Earth Catalog stand for?

By choosing to write in Yiddish rather than Hebrew, the young Singer declared his allegiance to the here and now rather than a biblical past or a Zionist future.

Though the language of cliché has switched from the middle-class respectability of the 1950s to our current obsessions with “inclusion” and concern for the marginalized, the practice of washing our…

Game theory, computers, the atom bomb—these are just a few of things von Neumann played a role in developing, changing the 20th century for better and worse.

As a mode of recommendation, the newspaper fiction review has less to recommend it than ever before.