The continuing glory of the New York Review of Books
The New York Review was always great, but it may be even better under new editor Ian Buruma
Zadie Smith on libraries and the state of the state
How did something as fine and useful as a public library become an ideological issue?
Why the global warming skeptics are skeptical
It is politics, not science. Global warming skeptics fear opening the door to government regulation
Did the Renaissance invent individuality in portraiture?
Andrew Butterfield says yes; the Fayum portraits suggest no
The incoherence of the Republican battle in Iowa
GOP social and economic policies are incoherent and none of the candidates knows how to hide that
The Muslim Brotherhood had a monopoly. Can they compete?
Mubarak gave the Muslim Brotherhood an unnatural monopoly on opposition. Can they compete?