Jay Anson’s haunted-house yarn was a highly lucrative hoax, but it struck a popular chord amid the financial precarity of 1970s America.

What Karl Popper’s classic can teach us about the threats facing democracies today.

The state should not assume the right to end the lives of its citizens at will.

The history of Soviet totalitarianism is now being rewritten.

Every generation or so (i.e., roughly every 25 years) a woman (it’s always a woman) writes a book about kinky sex—and a very specific type of kinky sex.

How Alexis de Tocqueville foretold the rise of victimhood culture.

The accepted view is that the scientists of the European Enlightenment got the issue of race badly wrong. In fact, some of them got more right than they are usually given credit for.

Peter Beinart has responded to the 7 October massacre and subsequent Gaza war with a deeply duplicitous book.

Both Israelis and Palestinians have a reasonable claim to live in the Holy Land, based on deep local roots.

Activists on both sides have an incentive to keep Critical Race Theory undefined and ambiguous.