Jameel Jaffer is director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia.

De Doctrina Christiana matters because it mattered to Milton. You can ignore it and still enjoy his poetry, but if ...

The 9 January attack, which left six thousand Kyiv housing blocks without heating, was far from the first Russian assault on Ukraine’s energy grid – it has been their strategy since autumn 2022. But ...

Method of Mechanical Theorems is a letter from Archimedes to Eratosthenes, the head of the library of Alexandria and a renowned philosopher in his own right. Most of it is devoted to proving ...

Other favourite monsters of modernity were similarly re-created: the most familiar element of the werewolf myth, the fatal silver bullet, was devised in 1941 for the Hollywood movie The Wolf Man, and ...

As he unearthed archival material and remembered his youth spent in cinemas, the shape of The Secret Agent began to emerge. A projectionist interviewed in the documentary became the inspiration for a ...

I live in one of the south Minneapolis neighbourhoods that ICE and CBP have been pummelling for the last few weeks.

The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of ...

Many politicians and journalists have deployed a variation on the phrase before they move on to the more comfortable business of chewing over the really big questions: did Mandelson betray his country ...

Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl half-time show was a magic trick that revealed what those who refer to other people as ...

The practice persisted, however, even after the US signed the Helsinki Accords in 1975, which affirmed freedoms of thought and belief, and even after Congress narrowed the provisions of the ...

Art in Tudor England was more than just decoration. Occupants of a precarious throne, passed down through a series ...