American Life

In his new book, Intelligence and How to Get It, Richard Nisbett examines the factors that contribute to IQ.

A new book takes an uneven look at the current and upcoming challenges facing Latinos and the U.S. educational system.

A Nation of Emigrants turns the Mexican immigration issue inside-out and emerges with a fresh perspective.

Jean Forst has high praise for a new book that details the Keystone Film Company’s rise and the birth of middlebrow culture.

Barack Obama won big while refusing (for the most part) to go negative. Perhaps he won precisely because he refused to attack his opponent, to “pick on an invalid,” as Ronald Reagan—in an alarmingly effective …

Like most Americans, I was taught that in passing the National Voting Rights Act of 1965, LBJ betrayed the South, and this region then folded itself, seemingly for good, into the arms of the GOP. …