In the new FX adaptation, Dickens’s England is crass, vulgar—and thoroughly tainted by Empire.

In his 1854 book “Hard Times,” the great British novelist satirized the utilitarian underpinnings of the Effective Altruist movement.

The former Texas senator also thinks the rich pay way too much in taxes. No word yet on debtor’s prison.

Readers have long bickered over what actually ails Dickens’s famous Christmas tyke, but there’s no argument about how we can help children like him.

Most of the big tech attempts to “disrupt” the book have failed.

Recent adaptations of the Dickens and Austen novels teach us how to foster joy in a time of fear and contagion.

Moderate liberals and conservatives complain about the contemporary focus on suffering. But such activism is central to American democracy.

It was the best of lines, it was the worst of lines