Steven Spielberg’s latest big-budget adventure, Disclosure Day, came and went earlier this summer. Like Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), the film...
Chris Bohjalian’s The Amateur tells a story from the perspective of an adult looking back at a decades-old pivotal event she sometimes misremembers. The...
There is no legally binding international treaty that establishes abortion as a human right. Yet governments around the world are increasingly told they are...
Every August and September, parents face a familiar ritual: purchasing school supplies, meeting teachers, and filling out a thick stack of medical forms. For...
The first time Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette, arrived in the United States in 1777, the defining characteristic...
I have been reading Tocqueville again lately, prompted by our nation’s semiquincentennial celebrations. Looking at where we are today, it is hard not to...
