If Parisians think they’re sweaty, one can only imagine sitting in the Pennsylvania State House hammering out the American Declaration of Independence in 1776 wearing wigs and waistcoats.

Hurray for Jim Holt, who cracks our formulaic stupor with his crisp, jolly new book, "Why Does the World Exist?An Existential Detective Story." Already, I've started a list of folk who will find ...

In “Why Does the World Exist,” Jim Holt ponders why we are here, how something came out of nothing. Accessibility statement Skip to main content. Democracy Dies in Darkness.

Why Does the World Exist? An Existential Detective Story. Jim Holt Liveright: 310 pp., $27.95 ...

Beginning with the question “Why is there something rather than nothing?,” Holt guides the reader through pockets of deep thinking and erudition in the Western world, interviewing influential ...

According to the New York Times, one sign of “right-wing” extremism is opposition to “globalist” institutions like the World Bank. Extreme or not, we’d all be better with the World ...

Two long-suffering New York Jets fans (and New York Magazine staff writers) Gabriel Debenedetti and Simon van Zuylen-Wood discuss a strange new Aaron Rodgers documentary on Netflix.

Also in Slate: Ron Rosenbaum admires Jim Holt’s pursuit of true nothingness. The following article is adapted from Jim Holt’s Why Does the World Exist?, out now from W.W. Norton. Late winter ...

In Why Does the World Exist? Jim Holt spans physics, philosophy and literature to examine the mystery of why there is something rather than nothing NOVELIST Martin Amis once said we are about five ...

When seeking an answer to life’s most profound question, it only makes sense to look for Einsteins, said Amanda Gefter in New Scientist. Inspired by Martin Amis’s observation that we’re ...