As Andrew Albanese reports at Publishers Weekly, and Anna Codrea-Rado at the New York Times, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron made a joint address at the opening ceremony… Read more »

Socialist Survivalism: A Democracy Beyond Democracy This is Part III in a four-part series; don’t miss: Part I: Three Fateful Ironies of Democracy Part II: Beneath the Volcano III. Cult… Read more »

Last time we wrote about Leon Wieseltier, The New Republic—where Leon Wieseltier had worked for thirty-one years—had vertically integrated itself into something confusing that no longer had room for its… Read more »

British booksellers and industry spokespeople are calling on the government to stand up for them and offer the same level of support that the French government promised to their own… Read more »

Reviewing a slate of new what-should-we-think-about-the-Internet books in The New Yorker, Adam Gopnik humorously divides the experts into three camps: The Never-Betters believe that we’re on the brink of a… 2 / Read more »

NPR’s Talk of the Nation recently rebroadcast a 1993 “Science Friday” show about the exciting possibilities of the internet. It’s a remarkable look at the foreignness, naivety, and prescience of… Read more »