The Politics of Fear Itself
Fear is not what’s driving Americans to support Trump—it is, instead, how many justify their support.
Fear is not what’s driving Americans to support Trump—it is, instead, how many justify their support.
My generation has tasted freedom and experienced a competitive, vibrant political life. We can’t be made a part of what Russia has become.
I thought my mother was an only child. I was wrong. (From 2023)
America still can’t figure out how to memorialize the sins of our history. What can we learn from Germany? (From 2022)
Flag dishes you want to make, or don’t: The point of this practice is pleasure, not pragmatism.
Why has the media establishment become so unpopular? Perhaps the public has good reason to think that the media’s self-aggrandizement gets in the way of solving the country’s real problems. (From 1996)
“Hemingway says somewhere that the good writer competes only with the dead. The good detective story writer … competes not only with all the unburied dead but with all the hosts of the living as well.” (From 1944)
Some scientists are starting to reopen a provocative debate: Are plants intelligent?
A new season of the How To series from The Atlantic