As the U.S. political scene has evolved, more and more Americans have begun to realize that the nation suffers from deep, systemic problems. The sad truth is that American democracy is dysfunctional, with government (and... Read More

It’s simply impossible to read the recently published Go Set a Watchman without comparing it to Harper Lee’s only other published book, To Kill a Mockingbird. I wanted to give Lee the chance to write... Read More

As a follow up to 2012’s bestselling Proof of Heaven, Dr. Eben Alexander—the neurosurgeon who claims to have visited heaven while comatose—treats us to another dubious tour of the beyond in The Map of Heaven:... Read More

Ta-Nehisi Coates’s new book Between the World and Me is a short one—really a collection of three essays, designed as a letter to his fifteen-year-old son that takes the form of a poetic autobiographical account... Read More

There are few scientists alive today who have had as far-reaching an impact as Edward O. Wilson. With a career spanning more than half a century, he is the author of thirty books in which... Read More

In 1952, with the election of Dwight D. Eisenhower as president, a small, chariot-driving clan of Christian evangelicals stormed the national stage, bent on foisting their religious claims into American law, custom, and ceremony. The... Read More

Hector A. Garcia’s new book, Alpha God: The Psychology of Religious Violence and Oppression, successfully draws parallels between violence in human evolution and in dominant religions. He effectively illustrates the salience of the connection with... Read More