That same year Mann, the author of “The Magic Mountain” and “Death in Venice,” launched a lecture series across this country. Late in 1938, the published record of Mann’s lectures appeared. Mann ...

Let’s begin with a troubling truth: in many countries, hundreds of millions of people nowadays feel that when it comes to the biggest decisions affecting their lives, despite all the talk of ...

Americans, it seems, can both value the idea of democracy and not support it in practice. Since 2016, academics and journalists have expressed concerns that formerly secure democracies are becoming ...