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Isabella Hammad
Acts of Language

Amid the actual violence of Israel’s assault on Gaza, why have so many writers treated pro-Palestine speech as a threat?

Marc Levinson
What Is a Supermarket?

If the FTC blocks the proposed merger of Kroger and Albertsons, will bigger giants of food retailing like Walmart come out as winners?

Christopher Benfey
Nîmes and Other Destinations

When we travel, we sometimes find ourselves in places—destinations of memory or the imagination—not found on any maps.

Ed Vulliamy and Pascal Vannier
D-Day’s Forgotten Victims Speak Out

“The French victims of Allied bombs are absent not only from official British and American accounts but from French ones, too—it was considered ungrateful to offend the liberators, and the Norman economy is significantly reliant on D-Day tourism. Visitors come to hear about victory, not a massacre of innocents by their own air forces.”

Free from the Archives

One hundred and twenty-one years ago today, Henry Ford founded the Ford Motor Company. In the Review’s August 14, 1986, issue, John Kenneth Galbraith wrote about the life and self-perpetuated myth of Ford, one of the last titans of American business who sought to rule his corporation through the imposition of “an intrinsically incompetent personal authority.”

John Kenneth Galbraith
Truly the Last Tycoons

“Henry Ford was subliterate, unpredictably authoritarian, anti-Semitic, and given to the vagaries of ignorance. The latter is no casual condemnation. It was established by the courts in 1919 in the famous Mount Clemens case when Henry Ford sued the Chicago Tribune for so describing him. Put on the stand, he got the American Revolution started in 1812, identified Benedict Arnold as a writer who recently had done some work at Ford, and said a ‘large mobile army’ was a large army that had been mobilized. It was a suit both sides should have lost.”

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