Mark Lilla

Another Change Election

On the need to preserve our institutions

The Tower and the Sewer

Catholic postliberal thinkers opposed to modern liberal individualism are less interested in transforming people’s unhappy lives through the power of the gospel than in jockeying for political power as the vanguard of a conservative revolution.

The Writer Apart

Who is the “nonpolitical” man Thomas Mann tried to defend even as he couldn’t escape politics?

Keep Your Wits

How to Write About the Right: An Exchange

Two Roads for the New French Right

Something new is happening on the European right, and it involves more than xenophobic populist outbursts.

On Robert Silvers

Nineteen writers remember The New York Review’s editor.

How the French Face Terror

Four recent books show a country going through the classic stages of trauma

France: Is There a Way Out?

Economic stagnation, political paralysis, terrorism, and migrants

France: The Myths

The Strangely Conservative French

Slouching Toward Mecca

Michel Houellebecq’s ‘Soumission’

France: A Strange Defeat

Éric Zemmour’s ‘Le Suicide français’

France on Fire

It is hard to escape the feeling that a major battle is beginning

France: The Ground Shifts

In Paris after the attacks, the shock is that things are far worse than anyone had feared.

Arendt & Eichmann

The Defense of a Jewish Collaborator

Claude Lanzmann’s ‘The Last of the Unjust’

Arendt & Eichmann: The New Truth

Margarethe von Trotta’s film ‘Hannah Arendt’

Tyrant of the Commune

Paul-Julien Robert is an angry young man. And he has every right to be. Robert was born in 1979 to a young Swiss woman living in Friedrichshof, a famous, and later infamous, Austrian commune that was once the largest in Europe.

Isaiah Berlin Against the Current