Maris Kreizman is a 40-something book critic, columnist for Lit Hub and one-time podcaster. In her debut essay collection “I ...

Zohran Mamdani’s parents, a filmmaker and a professor, gave him the foundation for his run for mayor of New York. But their own political views may open him up to attacks.

How the ‘spiral of a silence’ explains self-censorship In the 1970s, Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, a distinguished German political scientist, coined the term the “spiral of silence” to describe how ...