The 14 3/4 Biggest Ideas of the Year
A guide to the intellectual trends that, for better or worse, are most shaping America right now
A guide to the biggest ideas of the year, the politically incorrect guide to ending poverty, why we should call terrorists nitwits, and more
A guide to the intellectual trends that, for better or worse, are most shaping America right now
Women are dominating society as never before.
A paternal contribution may not be as essential as we think.
A map of one couple’s attempt to build the world’s greenest home
How media companies are taming the Internet’s chaos
Helping wayward students—by personalizing curricula
Why are fewer drugs being approved, even as R&D surges?
An eminent economist discovers the virtues of colonialism.
Most terrorists are bungling fools. Spread the word.
In today’s exchanges, strong programs prey on weak ones, humans are hard to find, and the SEC struggles to keep up.
Small towns in the South are looking for a few good Jewish families.
Confessions of a fake businessman from Beijing
The giant’s creepy efforts to read my mind
Italy’s Northern League party exploits a brutal crime for a dubious law.
How the Xerox 914 gave rise to the Information age
On The Shining’s 30th anniversary, a visit to the hotels that inspired Stephen King’s novel— and the Stanley Kubrick film he scorned
How the numbers game shaped Harlem
A new crop of books suggests that for women, obsession with real estate is replacing obsession with love and marriage.
New fiction from Jane Smiley and A. L. Kennedy; the concise LBJ; Jung and Pauli’s cosmic convergence; and more
What they’re lying about, and other advice