What we owe 2020-somethings

ON A FRIDAY MORNING IN OCTOBER, ABOUT 100 high school and college students gathered in a Utah ballroom to play a game. Some students were assigned specific roles and given costumes to wear. “Governmen

The lasting legacy of the lockdown PC hardware boom

We can’t predict exactly how you’ll be feeling as the year comes to a close, but our best guess is that you’ll be in need of a breather. Because for many of us, 2025 has not been painless. Political t

Global markets and the new illiberalism

Did you know that Thomas Müntzer, leader of the German Peasants’ War in 1525, used a rainbow flag to rally his followers? It’s an aptly exuberant image for the radical charisma of Müntzer, and for the

As many as 300,000 displaced Gazans streamed northward on Jan. 27, after Israel reopened the Netzarim corridor, which bisects the Gaza Strip. Carrying their belongings in plastic bags and flour sacks