Adam Gopnik

The surprise and shock that so many people have registered at the photographs of Donald Trump's destruction of the East Wing of the White House—soon

A visit to a poet’s home in Kraków recalls the lessons of East Europe’s dissidents.

The historical and archeological record upends the widespread belief that long-term incarceration belongs to the modern state.

Voters voted for it, even if they weren't sure what it was. But maps are the ideal metaphor for our models of what the world might be.

A radical history of the Mets insists that baseball can still be the people's game.

New scholarship reconsiders the apostle who turned a Jewish sect into a world religion—and whose legacy remains contested two millennia later.

The latest in the Trumpite series of proposed oversized buildings—the previous one being a ballroom where the East Wing of the White House once

A humane study of how artists have captured our canine companions becomes a meditation on sympathy, trust, and the virtues we have bred them to display.

America's fight for independence is often considered a battle fought and won at home. A new book argues that it was propelled by a transnational élite an ocean away.

There are moments when a phrase, or a current of thought, that had seemed condemned to archival history is suddenly all anyone talks about.