Radical Reformation
The Catholic Church’s progressive revival by Jack Hanson
A Dying Art
The last of the morticians by John Semley
Blue Bowls
On misreading Doris Lessing by Cynthia Zarin
HARPER’S MAGAZINE – AUGUST 2026 PREVIEW
Category Archives: Essays
THE ATLANTIC MAGAZINE – AUGUST 2026 PREVIEW
THE ATLANTIC MAGAZINE: The latest issue features Reading shaped the modern mind. Its decline will reshape it—and transform civilization, Rose Horowitch argues in our August cover story.
The End of Reading Is Here
Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history. By Rose Horowitch
The Corner of Hollywood That’s Most Susceptible to AI
Animators are figuring out whether to fight or accept the new technology that’s coming for their jobs. By Shirley Li
Perhaps the Nazi Tattoo Was a Clue
Graham Platner’s unfitness for office was clear long ago. By Mike Nelson
The Hedgehog Review – SUMMER 2026 Preview
THE HEDGEHOG REVIEW: The latest issue features ‘
The Fading Promise of Higher Education
A loss of public faith in higher education and and what it represents for the larger community. This issue also features a Symposium on Aspects of 1776 in commemoration of America at 250.
The University’s Never-Ending Crisis
Higher education has dealt with epistemic revolution before.
Artificial Negligence
Why are college administrators so eager to adopt AI?
HARPER’S MAGAZINE ——— JULY 2026 PREVIEW
Happy Fucking Birthday
An exhausted America turns two hundred and fifty by Christopher Hooks
Republican Machines
Can the GOP save the humanities? by Ann Manov
American Ephemera
A primer on a free people’s government by William T. Vollmann
THE YALE REVIEW JOURNAL – SUMMER 2026 PREVIEW
THE YALE REVIEW (March 11, 2025): The latest issue features a central folio, “What Was AI?,” exploring artificial intelligence through essays from Lauren Oyler, Christopher Sorrentino, and Melanie Mitchell. The issue also includes new memoirs and essays from Annie Ernaux and Namwali Serpell, alongside a visual portfolio by Vera Molnár.
Jagged Intelligence
The dangerous unknowns at the heart of LLMs by Melanie Mitchell
Reading the Declaration of Independence as Holy Text
How the American creed emerged—and evolved—over 250 years by Kathryn Lofton
Is the Twenty-First Century a Creative Void?
Critics mourn a bygone cultural era. But nostalgia for the new isn’t new by Audrey Wollen
The Birthday Party No One Wants
Why Americans aren’t celebrating the semiquincentennial by Samuel Moyn
I am back in writing hell. As if each time I start writing, I have to go through the same hell again. Annie Ernaux Unpublished journal entries
IMPACT MAGAZINE ———- SPRING 2026 PREVIEW
Pacific Research Institute: The latest issue features America’s 250th anniversary through profiles of historical figures like Benjamin Rush and R.C. Hoiles, while advocating for free-market healthcare and criticizing California’s policy landscape. The issue further highlights American culture through the influence of Sarah Josepha Hale and provides critical analyses of state leadership and economic policies.
PRI, in celebration of America’s 250th birthday, has produced a series of videos and supplemental lesson plans for teachers highlighting the achievements of some of this country’s, and California’s, in particular, greatest unsung heroes. Three of my favorites have been compiled in the pages that follow. The first profiles one of my heroes, Benjamin Rush, a physician and signer of the Declaration of Independence. Another features R.C. Hoiles, a free-market newspaper publisher whose son-in-law Dick Wallace served on the PRI board until his recent passing. Hoiles, a great defender of liberty, built a large group of newspapers around the country including the popular Orange County Register.
And we also honor Sarah Josepha Hale, a poet, author, and visionary force in American culture. She championed Thanksgiving until it became a national tradition and holiday. Through her magazine Godey’s Lady’s Book, she helped to shape American tastes from beloved recipes to the white wedding dress.
SKEPTIC MAGAZINE —– SUMMER 2026 PREVIEW
SKEPTIC MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘The Conspiracy Grift’
Skepticism and the Attention Economy
We founded Skeptic magazine and the Skeptics Society in 1992, partially in response to a market demand from consumers and the media for a scientific and rational response to increasingly tantalizing claims of the paranormal and supernatural, ESP and Psi, telepathy and telekinesis, NDEs and OBEs, ghosts and poltergeists, astrology and psychics, cryptozoology and strange creatures, haunted houses and mysterious places, UFOs and aliens, conspiracy theories and cults, and a litany of anomalous psychological experiences people reported.
Anti-Woke, or Just Wounded? A Typology of Two Types of Anti-Woke Intellectuals
I’m a humanistic weirdo, and as such I’m not sure where I belong in this modern culture war. I love truth and reason — I’ve built a career on them — but I belong to a humanistic tradition that refuses to stop at the head and leave the heart out of it. And these days there aren’t many of us. So when I look at the people we’ve come to call “anti-woke intellectuals”—many of whom have written for Skeptic or appeared as guests on The Michael Shermer Show podcast—I don’t see them the way either side wants me to.
Christian Nationalists, Christian Dominionists, and Women’s Rights
HARPER’S MAGAZINE ——— JUNE 2026 PREVIEW
HARPER’S MAGAZINE: The latest issue features a memoir from a Quebec garbageman; Katie Thornton on the undying dream of Esperanto; Wyatt Williams on weather modification; Andrew Cockburn on the data-center divide; Kevin Lozano on Bernie Goetz; and a story from Kevin Brazil.
The Conscience of the City
On the life of the garbageman by Simon Paré-Poupart
Love Language
[Letter from the Czech Republic]
The undying dream of Esperanto by Katie Thornton
Hard Rain
The battle over weather modification by Wyatt Williams
THE ATLANTIC MAGAZINE – JUNE 2026 PREVIEW
THE ATLANTIC MAGAZINE: The latest issue features The men who don’t want women to vote, a venture-capital populist, Karl Lagerfeld’s feline heir, and new fiction by Stephen King. Plus the Indianapolis Clowns, how to win on Jeopardy, Lee Friedlander, heartland rock, Denyce Graves, Elizabeth Strout, alien conspiracy theories, the U.S. centennial, and more.
The Men Who Want Women to Be Quiet
A virulent form of misogyny has become the single most important force holding together the American right. By Helen Lewis
The Richest Cat in the World
Did Karl Lagerfeld really leave millions to his blue-cream Birman, Choupette? By Chris Heath
The Venture-Capital Populist
How David Sacks and the new tech right went full MAGA and captured Washington By George Packer
THE ATLANTIC MAGAZINE – MAY 2026 PREVIEW
THE ATLANTIC MAGAZINE: The latest issue features America’s best free bread, the cartel Olympics, a billionaire’s private retreat, and why reactionaries are taking over the world. Plus the U.S. gerontocracy, masterpieces of the New Deal, John Mark Comer, Black comedy, the eighth deadly sin, and more.
I Found It: The Best Free Restaurant Bread in America
Thirteen thousand miles. Infinite contenders. One beautiful loaf. Caity Weaver
The Incredible Story of the Cartel Olympics
A Mexican athlete said he was kidnapped and forced to compete for his life in a tournament of gangs. But was he actually playing a different game? McKay Coppins
Someday in Tehran
The heartbreak of hoping for a democratic Iran Laura Secor
History Is Running Backwards
Why reactionaries are taking over the world David Brooks
Boomers Daily 