Laurent Dubois’s history of the banjo is a worthy contribution, even if it strikes a few discordant notes.

How four men—three Muslims and a Jew—represent Morocco in all its complexity.

We’ve slipped into a second nuclear age, though most of the West hasn’t noticed. This one is a lot more complicated and a lot less stable.

How bad are things for conservatives in academia?

Timothy Snyder’s Black Earth fails to convince in its reinterpretation of the Holocaust, and its forecast of the next one.

The NRA has spun a story of the Second Amendment’s origins that has nothing to do with its real ones.

In a new play, Prince Charles becomes king at last, and finds it isn’t easy being a symbol.

When we argue about policing and prison reform today, we are arguing about the legacy of the Great American Crime Wave and the politics it produced.

The bearded fanatic, dressed in black, enters the cell in which the lady—who held power in the old regime and who still stubbornly clings to the old, corrupt version of the faith—has long been imprisoned. His voice dripping with hypocritical sorrow, he holds out a paper and announces the sentence toward which he has long […]

The Coen brothers give the star treatment to Hollywood itself.