The City Beyond Politics

Review: Jonathan F.P. Rose, ‘The Well-Tempered City: What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations, and Human Nature Teach Us About the Future of Urban Life’

Ambrose Bierce

How Ambrose Bierce Went to War—and Never Came Back

Review: Christopher Kiernan Coleman, ‘Ambrose Bierce And the Period of Honorable Strife’

lonely child

The State Wants to Raise Your Child

Review: Abby W. Schachter, ‘No Child Left Alone’

The Third Great American Songbook

Review: Marc Myers, ‘Anatomy of a Song: The Oral History of 45 Iconic Hits That Changed Rock, R&B and Pop’

Truthy Researcher Launches New Fact-Checking Project

Falsely claims Free Beacon is 'alt-right'

Herbert Hoover

Herbert Hoover the Great

Review: Glen Jeansonne, ‘Herbert Hoover: A Life’

It Had to Be the Promised Land

Review: Gur Alroey, ‘Zionism Without Zion: The Jewish Territorial Organization and Its Conflict with the Zionist Organization’

Harlan Ellison

The Harlan Ellison Show

Column: One fan's mission to preserve the legacy of a science fiction master

The State of the Animation Nation

Looking back on a year of cartoons