In an era that prizes passion, “reasonableness” gets caricatured as political cowardice or bloodless neutrality. A new book ...

I only kept it in because it wasn't load-bearing. It was just a fun, silly elaborate word to use in the midst of an otherwise ongoing punchline. You can still use long words and be a sort of moron. Or ...

Whenever Mary Beard walks past the Pizza ­Express near the British Museum she is reminded of a lunch she had with a senior ...

Katy Bright studies the popular suggestion that Shakespeare was not one but many writers, in celebration of Shakespeare Day ...

Social media platforms have become important spaces where people narrate the self, negotiate belonging, and make sense of lived experience. In contemporary ...

On the social internet, our fascination with analyzing the hidden messages in our culture has been flattened into one word.

Readers respond to an Opinion guest essay by David Plouffe. Also: Why mothers are burned out; national referendums.

The word essay comes from the French word ‘essayer’ meaning ‘to try’ or ‘to attempt’. A French writer called Michel de Montaigne invented the essay in Europe as his ‘attempt’ to write about himself ...

Students are hungry for civil discourse. Universities must seize this moment to build ideological bridges on their campuses.

Connect ideas in your writing, join sentences and paragraphs together and make your writing easier to follow. How to plan and draft your writing Plans are where you can put all your ideas and then ...

Most Americans say striking Iran was the wrong decision and disapprove of Trump’s handling of the conflict, with stark partisan divides. A narrow majority of adults believe the U.S. military action ...