Adam Gopnik

What a nineteenth-century uproar reveals about our zeal for public shaming—and the truths that get trampled along the way.

Sports, spectacle, and what Juvenal would have made of this moment.

America’s fight for independence is often considered a battle fought and won at home. A new book argues that it was propelled by a transnational élite an ocean away.

A humane study of how artists have captured our canine companions becomes a meditation on sympathy, trust, and the virtues we have bred them to display.

The latest in the Trumpite series of proposed oversized buildings is a so-called triumphal arch, though exactly what triumph so needs an arch is unclear, Adam Gopnik writes.

New scholarship reconsiders the apostle who turned a Jewish sect into a world religion—and whose legacy remains contested two millennia later.

A radical history of the Mets insists that baseball can still be the people’s game.

Our history too often sidesteps the question of finances. But sonorous ideals don’t keep an army supplied with uniforms, guns, and grub.

On a mild December day in 1984, a man named Bernie Goetz shot four Black teen-agers on a subway. The incident galvanized the city. Are we still living in its wake?

Voters voted for it, even if they weren’t sure what it was. But maps are the ideal metaphor for our models of what the world might be.