The real scandal of the Epstein saga is not that a billionaire cabal runs the world. It’s that there is a billionaire class.

Matt and Sam talk to Bill Kristol about his journey from neoconservative thought leader to anti-Trump liberal.

The “middle powers” can band together to chart a third way between authoritarian superpowers in Washington and Beijing.

Stephen Kinzer is one of the few mainstream voices reminding Americans of our imperial identity. In The True Flag, he takes us back to where he thinks it all began—1898, when the U.S. political class ...

An influx of gifted, charismatic, politically active stars have willed the WNBA into a genuine sporting attraction. Can they leverage the sport’s growing popularity into a better deal for players?

The American Dream enjoins limitless social mobility. Class barriers don’t exist for it, or if they do they are so fluid as to be virtually without meaning. “From each according to his abilities … ” ...

Two hundred and fifty years after Beethoven’s birth, we’re faced with something of a paradox: his music is known and beloved all over the world, probably more than that of any other composer, even as ...

An interview with Quinn Slobodian, the author of Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right. Nick Serpe: Hayek’s Bastards is, in some ways, a pre-history of the alt-right, ...

He has been called one of the most original political thinkers of the twentieth century. “If academic citations and internet references are any guide,” one historian pointed out, “he is more ...