Caspar David Friedrich, “The Abbey in the Oakwood” (1809-10)
Maculate Conception
The Miracle of Canticle

Sixty years on, Walter M. Miller Jr.’s post-apocalyptic novel, A Canticle for Leibowitz, offers a poignant rebuke to the political extremists of our own time.

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Slaughterhouse-Five at 50
A Triumphant Failure

There’s nothing intelligent to say about a massacre, wrote Kurt Vonnegut of his book about the firebombing of Dresden. So why are we still reading it a half-century later?

2019 Predictions

Another year, another round of prognostication. TAI editors speculate about what 2019 has in store.

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All Heat and No Light
Books That Burn

Almost 70 years on, Ray Bradbury’s dire warnings in Fahrenheit 451 should still make all of us uncomfortable.

No Illusions

Andrew Sullivan is shocked and appalled that President Obama now seems committed to stretching coalition involvement in Libya beyond the narrow confines of the UN Security Council resolution:It’s so surreal, so discordant with what the president has told the American people, so fantastically contrary to everything he campaigned on, that I will simply wait for […]

Humanity 2.0

Forget the future: What is science fiction saying about the present?

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