In today’s newsletter, the ritualistic sights and scenes at Pope Francis’s funeral. Plus: I watched the funeral for Pope ...

Now everything must change. That kind of knowledge production has, in effect, been automated. As a result, the “scientistic” ...

Jeff Bark’s elaborately composed scenes channel sundered American fantasies. They also function as personal folklore.

In Dea Kulumbegashvili’s film, Ia Sukhitashvili plays a Georgian obstetrician who views a woman’s right to choose as an ...

As the transatlantic alliance falters, a major exhibition of U.S. photography offers Europeans a dizzying array of ...

Paul Clement complained that Big Law was becoming “increasingly woke.” Now he’s defending one firm’s right to do just that.

From the daily newsletter: what happens when we can optimize pregnancy. Plus: Susan B. Glasser on Trump’s confused desires.

Also: reviews of Broadway’s “Smash” and “John Proctor Is the Villain”; New York’s financial crisis of 1975 in “Drop Dead City ...

It makes sense that a man who yearns for a reality untroubled by other humans would be drawn to art that is untouched by anything human.

It took its current form in 2018, under President Andrés Manuel López Obrador—a pugnacious, swaggering populist known ...

In a historic moment characterized by autocrats and would-be autocrats, Francis was the antithesis of a strongman.

This documentary examines the economic changes and managerial missteps that brought the city to the brink of bankruptcy in ...