David Bromwich

The Medium Is the Mistake

The media today occupy the same world as politicians, and that is a problem.

The Limited Virtues of ‘Vice’

Vice knows enough to have taught a solid lesson—after all, nobody under twenty-five has a vivid memory of any of this history—and major talents were lined up to collaborate. But the result is a shambles.

Crazy Talk

In Praise of Ambiguity

Trump's Tomahawks

What conclusion will be drawn by the mind of Donald Trump when, after firing missiles at a Syrian government airfield, he is now being promoted to the ranks of the sane and responsible by people who once characterized him as dangerously unstable?

Remembering Bob Silvers

On the late editor of The New York Review

On the Election—I

What is to be done about the Republican Party?

The Genius of a Neighbor

On the Target

A White Father at the ‘Indian Camp’?

The Threat to the Editorial Institute

A Hemingway Surprise

‘Ernest Hemingway: Between Two Wars’ at the Morgan Library

Are We ‘Exceptionally Rapacious Primates’?

Trapped in the Virtual Classroom

To what extent are the uniquely human elements of our lives the result of spontaneous or unplanned experience?

The Bugged Classroom

The Question of Edward Snowden

Laura Poitras’s documentary ‘Citizenfour’

The Hi-Tech Mess of Higher Education

On Andrew Rossi’s documentary ‘Ivory Tower’

Lincoln and Shakespeare

“I think nothing equals Macbeth.” Lincoln was deeply touched by the portrait of the mind of a politician who had committed great wrongs. He was not equally moved by the thoughts of a hero who reproached himself for doing too little.

Happy Birthday, Dr. Strangelove!

On the Way to War