Brian R. Sullivan, the editor of Margherita Serfatti’s memoir, takes issue with Michael McDonald’s recent review in our pages. Michael McDonald replies.

Evan Osnos offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of 21st-century China, whose rulers have their hands full trying to contain an increasingly diverse and demanding younger generation.

Tenacious demographer Joel Kotkin offers a flawed but formidable critique of America’s new oligarchy: Silicon Valley tech giants and the urban “gentry liberals” who support them.

Ivan Klíma’s political autobiography illuminates the surreality of Czechoslovak communism even as it fails to answer “the question”: Why the Jews?

A new exhibit at the National Museum of the American Indian uses platinum printing—of the sort known for romanticized portraits of the “vanishing Indian”—to devastating effect.

The massive and still accelerating cross-border movement of people across the globe might be the most portentous development of our times.

Margherita Grassini Sarfatti claimed she was to blame for fascism. It’s not so; not that she didn’t try.

Unlike Machiavelli’s The Prince, Antoine Saint-Exupéry’s Le Petit Prince isn’t usually on reading lists for policymakers and international relations scholars. But it should be.

A view of U.S. history through a whiskey glass reveals the central place of the bar in American life.

Strippers go to the Supreme Court to defend their right to bare it all in a riotous new play that even a lawyer could love.