When I heard last year that Adam Gopnik was writing a “stirring defense of liberalism” titled A Thousand Small Sanities, I had many questions. How would he turn liberalism into a story about his kids ...

Throughout history parents have always done their best to raise their children to become healthy, well-adjusted adults. Yet, as UC Berkeley developmental psychologist Alison Gopnik points out in her ...

While the election was ugly in its vociferousness, Gopnik says it was beautiful in the passions it evoked. On the Republican side, Gopnik said the election was passionate. On the President's side, he ...

Earlier this week, I attended a reading at The Strand for Adam Gopnik's new book, The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of Food. The book is an intellectual dive into the history of ...

In his book, Gopnik puts his signature genteel bohemian liberalism on full display. He rhapsodizes about how John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor’s marriage was a metaphor for the power of “compromise.

The idea that it can be bounded in by honest conservatives in a Cabinet or restrained by normal constitutional limits is unsupported by history. “Yes, we should go there,” Gopnik wrote. The worst ...

Gopnik's (Paris to the Moon , for adults) first offering for young readers is ambitious, complex and overly long. Oliver Parker, 11, an American boy in Paris, is vaguely unhappy. His father, a ...

This week in the magazine, Adam Gopnik writes about the relationship between atheism and religious belief, and reviews two new books about the history of atheism. On the New Yorker Out Loud podcast, ...

In Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life, Adam Gopnik calls Charles Darwin a “pointillist” because he made grand theory out of tiny details, a method with which I ...

Could a 4-year-old possess better instincts for scientific discovery than a college student? In one experiment, researchers showed preschoolers and undergraduates a variety of blocks, some of which ...

What appalled and obsessed Victor Hugo most was the seemingly “normal nature” of the French regime, even as it committed acts of unprecedented authoritarian menace and cruelty. How Irving Thalberg ...