My father slept on his side. On a cot one foot off the floor with a pillow between bony knees. As a young boy he toppled from the top of a slide and smashed his femur. In his telling, he landed ...
The month is May 1916. In southern Galicia, now Ukraine, on the Eastern Front of World War I, a twenty-seven-year-old Austrian volunteers for duty in an observation post exposed to enemy gunfire. He ...
To blame our current party system for the dysfunction of our democracy is not to argue that we would be better off without parties. As Drutman says, reinvigorating our party system is “the only path ...
Elaine Scarry is Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University. She is author of many books, including Thermonuclear Monarchy: Choosing Between ...