The Situation: Thoughts from the Editor-in-Chief on the American Predicament

A prediction.

Can protesters show more discipline than the president in a dangerous situation?

Can the courts even review the Trump administration’s suspension of entry of Harvard students?

On the law that Trump is using to keep foreign students out of Harvard.

A drone attack on an air base was imagined 30 years ago in a think tank report.

A modern disputation on the power and efficacy of indulgences

Why does the administration keep picking First Amendment fights it can’t possibly win?

I really don’t need this sort of defense from antisemitism.

Not since Julia Child became the face of French cooking has the United States so affronted France.

James Comey could have gone a lot stronger than “8647” and still not risked jail.

I won’t be going to further events sponsored by Michael Flynn.

Yale intellectuals congratulate themselves for moving to Canada. 

I have problems with the Qatar plane deal.

Reining in the corruption is not hopeless.

How to save American film and make a real statement with prison islands.

Thoughts on American exceptionalism.

An impressionistic painting.

There is a point at which ignorant dilettantism becomes a form of cruelty. Trump passed it long ago in Ukraine.

Why the Harvard case matters.

What law lets the Trump administration store Venezuelans in Salvadoran prisons?