Sigmund Freud

Talking with Daphne Merkin about ‘American mishegas’

How the statistician has permanently changed the polling game

New research uncovers a link between Freud’s inner circle and the Soviet atomic bomb

I grew up in a world of observance, separate from secular America, but soon realized that the borders are more porous than they seem

Children’s book illustrator Tom Seidmann-Freud—Sigmund Freud’s niece—led a short and tragic life, but her surreal, whimsical art endures

Outside my cloistered yeshiva, I found a new social order and a friend who, unlike me, was trusting enough to submit to someone else’s authority

Agenda: “Crime Scene: Europe,” Jascha Heifetz in a new documentary, Def Jam in Atlanta, Jewish life in the Bay Area, Freud vs. Jung in Oslo, and more

Lost Books

Plus the uncowardly Robert Ford, the Hasidic Sam Spade, and more

Thank God we have better stuff to read

The Jews and their excellentness

In Argentina, psychoanalysis is as common as Malbec

In his letters, Saul Bellow was thoughtful, eloquent, feisty—and quite possibly at his most Jewish

On the eve of the Oscars, an endorsement of ‘The White Ribbon’

One Jew who may have helped the Führer out