Wide Lens

A forgotten vision for Middle East peace

In 1919, the King-Crane Commission on the defunct Ottoman Empire issued a report one historian called ‘one of the great suppressed documents of the…

Sep 3 • Daniel Warner

‘Prolonging the life of this bizarre case’

Persistent echoes of the Scopes ‘monkey trial.'

Aug 5 • Robert Coalson

Edward R. Murrow, a journalist of a different era

Who will stand up for the truth in our time?

Jul 28 • Kalb, Marvin

Mein Kampf 100 years on

What is its significance for the resurgent far right?

Jul 10

On The New Yorker

Harold Ross's gamble, 100 years on.

Jun 26 • Adam Van Doren

Kafka’s The Trial: 1925 – 2025

A century after the novel’s publication, its portrait of arbitrary justice is increasingly relevant.

Jun 18 • Ritchie Robertson

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