More than a half-century ago, Noam Chomsky’s seminal essay, "The Responsibility of Intellectuals," appeared in a Feb. 23, 1967, special issue of The New York Review of Books. That was then, at the ...

A continuing lament of the New York intellectuals—those cultural and social critics who coalesced around Partisan Review just before World War II—has been that America has lacked enough of an ...

In 2017, I was trying to write How to Be an Antiracist. Words came onto the page slower than ever. On some days, no words came at all. Clearly, I was in crisis. I don’t believe in writer’s block. When ...

When the train of history makes a sharp turn, said Lenin, the passengers who do not have a good grip on their seats are thrown off. Last week the Communist Limited had just about completed the dizzy ...

G rateful as I am for the clarifications that John Guillory has brought to our decades-old disagreement over the relationship between scholarship and politics, there are “just one or two small points, ...

In the April 1945 edition of politics, Dwight Macdonald took aim at the collective-guilt mentality as embodied in one of his favorite targets among liberal intellectuals, Max Lerner. The article also ...

Bangladeshi intellectual life still leans heavily on an oral tradition. Of course, there are many scholars who follow proper research methods and produce serious academic work. But much of that work ...