Like many Americans, I had become an admirer of the worldview taken by Canadian prime minister Mark Carney, which is ...

The only letter I’ve ever sent to the New York Times was in the 1980s, objecting to the paper’s suddenly pestilent use of “draconian.” During Iran–Contra the complaint must have seemed trivial; the ...

But he was also aware of the violence and humiliation that an absence of discretion could invite. He maintained a certain ...

As the anti-immigrationist far right continues to surge in French polls ahead of next year’s presidential election, it seems ...

Whenever a friend wrote me reporting a successful shit, I wondered: Why are you telling me this? Good manners dictated I ...

To live in society involves putting up with people who we did not choose to know and may in fact prefer not to exist. Even those we basically like and get along with are sure, from time to time, to ...