For those struggling to cope with Trump's flurry of executive orders, Simone Weil and 'The Iliad' offer useful guidance.

Ros Schwartz’s translation of The Need for Roots makes Weil’s masterpiece feel as urgent today as it was in 1943.

A note about the meeting of the minds between populists and techno elites.

Simone Weil was born to a fairly well-off Jewish family ... Weil’s life and death are significant to fully understanding her body of work. Her writing, which vacillates easily between analytical ...

Simone Weil, in her ponderously titled but wonderfully argued essay ... at another point when it probably felt like paying attention to Latin exercises or work meetings was perhaps not quite what the ...

Suzanna Murawski on Simone Weil, an art heist & Picasso in Cleveland.