Adam Gopnik

As plans are laid for a new casino, one can trace, through four figures, a history of rivalry and excess, rife with collisions of character and crime.

How Irving Thalberg helped turn M-G-M into the world’s most famous movie studio—and gave the film business a new sense of artistry and scale.

Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America.

Plutocrats, anarchists, and what Henry James grasped about the romance of revolution.

From the French Revolution to January 6th, crowds have been heroized and vilified. Now they’re a field of study.

The rise of the sport as we know it was centered in Gotham, where big stadiums, heroic characters, and epic sportswriting produced a pastime that bound a city together.

The COVID-19 pandemic affected us in millions of ways. But it evades the meanings we want it to bear.

The civil-rights mastermind was sidelined by his own movement. Now he’s back in the spotlight. What can we learn from his strategies of resistance?

After the English Revolution—and an island’s experiment with republicanism—a genuine restoration was never in the cards.

For all the clouds of publicity, the dream machine is actually a craft business. Have we asked too much of it?

A virtuoso of the eighteenth-century version of viral memes and fake news, he had a sense of political theatre that helped create a radical new reality.