In Crito and Phaedo, Plato takes this alliance between Socrates and poetry further, attributing to Socrates direct acts of poetic composition in plays, hymns, and fables, conferring on him the title ...

Trump’s actions are illegal, yes. Worse than that, they are wrong—precisely what the legality debate is meant to obscure.

Amid deficit-allergic neoliberal politics, everyone can agree on the appeal of budgetary savings. So now it is not just liberals going after mass incarceration. A group of brand-name conservatives, ...

His novels might be read as a fictive analogue to Howard Zinn’s People’s History of the United States: a polyphonic chronicle ...

David Pozen is a law professor at Columbia University and the author, most recently, of The Constitution of the War on Drugs.

For much of the past decade, the most imitated new American poets were slippery, digressive, polyvocalic, creators of overlapping, colorful fragments. Their poems were avowedly personal, although they ...

This is the first installment of a new column by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò. In 1962, eminent philosopher Bertrand Russell received a series of letters from Sir Oswald Mosley, the founder of the British Union ...

I learned my name was on the list from a Jewish colleague at my university, a woman I hardly know. “I need to tell you something,” she wrote in an email to me. “Do you have a minute for a call today?” ...

In July 2024, the Massachusetts legislature passed budget provisions requiring the creation of a commission “on combatting antisemitism in the commonwealth.” The provision came on the heels of the ...

What counts as “violence,” and what counts as “order,” are always political determinations made by those in power.

More than a century before Zohran Mamdani declared he wanted a New York City network of grocery stores “focused on keeping prices low,” socialists in Spain were furious about a network of grocery ...