Richard Brody, the editor of the movies section in Goings On About Town, has been at the magazine for eight years. Together with David Denby and Anthony Lane, Richard covers the film world, mostly on ...

I’m sorry, a person can’t just wake up one morning and abandon their entire worldview without an explanation. I mean, they can try, but no sensible person would take them seriously. None, though, have ...

In his incisive 2006 book Why? Charles Tilly explains how we explain ourselves. According to Tilly, reasons fall into four overlapping categories: conventions, stories, codes, and technical accounts.

So we've been through an entire debate, and Kamala Harris still hasn't explained any of her extraordinary policy flip-flops. I'm sorry, a person can't just wake up one morning and abandon their entire ...