“The Touch of Madness,” published online today in Pacific Standard magazine, is probably the most important article I’ve ever written. In the ...
The Times Sunday Book Review, six days ahead of the Sunday paper, published today my review of Richard Prum’s “The Evolution of Beauty” (and a...
My latest at Slate went up a couple days ago, after John McCain performed a weeklong drama in which he first revived the Kill Obamacare movement and then, telli...
What a fabulous conversation this is, between two giants we’ve lost. You see here, in this quiet, quietly intense, intensely curious conversation — in which (a ...
How was Trump able to harness so much anger, even though he had proposed no solutions and offered no way to build anything new? Martha Nussbaum offers that he c...
Accountability journalism ain’t quite dead yet. Azeen Ghorayshi with another great scoop on horrid behavior. One of the employees was an administrator who...
Salmon makes a strong and highly unsettling argument: The next step, after the Hogan verdict, was for Thiel to go public. After the enormous damages were announ...
Richard Dawkins’s “The Selfish Gene,” book and meme, is now 40 years old. Has it served its purpose? And how do we talk about whether it has? ...
Philip Ball on the strange, often savage defense of a 40-year-old meme past its prime: The fact is that genes can only propagate with the help of other g...
Angel investor Caterina Fake gets real on Peter Thiel: Generally, people avoid frivolous lawsuits because it often exposes them to as much scrutiny as those the...