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If you were living in a golden age, would you know it? Did the Romans of Augustus’s time know that theirs was the most extensive,... Read More

Life goes into new forms. — Neal Cassady, the epigraph from Denis Johnson’s Resuscitation of a Hanged Man Sometime in my... Read More

Over the past year I’ve written close to 20 pieces about the art of the American Revolution and the preservation of its heritage.... Read More

Criticism is not a secondary form of creation but a distinct craft, Leo Robson argues in this conversation with Leonard Benardo. Tracing its... Read More

When the University of Chicago submitted its final bid to host Barack Obama’s presidential library, the institution followed the... Read More

In the fall semester of 2020, Jason Kilborn, a law professor at the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law, gave a routine exam in his... Read More

One byproduct of getting older is that injuries hurt more and last longer. Inflammation prevents broken bones from knitting... Read More

No filmmaker better captures the spirit of America at its best than Mel Brooks. His life and work embody its can-do confidence and joyful... Read More

1. Not how I imagined meeting my playwright: I emerge from the stall, and there she is. Standing in front of the mirror, she applies makeup,... Read More

On this week's edition of "Get Real," RealClearPolitics publisher and host David DesRosiers takes us across the Atlantic to get a preview of... Read More

This week, four years after its debut, The Bear is coming to an end. The show’s fifth and final season drops on Thursday,... Read More

Although Donald Trump’s defenders describe the Russia hoax and other efforts to frame the president as a "grand conspiracy,"... Read More

In Thomas Wolfe’s posthumously published novel You Can’t Go Home Again (1940), protagonist George Webber finds himself... Read More

To the English novelist E.M. Forster, Gulliver’s Travels was ‘Robinson Crusoe in Fairy Land’. For George Orwell,... Read More

You could debate what the best American LGBTQ+ book is until the cows come home, but experts at least tend to agree on... Read More

New York City has always been the center of the world, but in the last few weeks, the magnifying glass has been on us like never before. The... Read More

The Future of Free Speech by Jacob Mchangama and Jeff Kosseff is an ambitious book written with no little fervour by manifestly... Read More

I was just speculating for a podcast. I had no personal information. I was just speculating for a podcast.” This was the... Read More

The first Englishman to reach the New World brought home chips and fags. Or so we were told: many of us will remember primary-school lessons... Read More

Three months ago, I read Zoe Dubno’s Happiness and Love. And I really adored this novel, which is about a young woman, a writer,... Read More

Writing about writing is almost inescapably boring. But I think the way to make it work is by diving right in. Headfirst, over the edge. So... Read More

Practically every school and university in America claims to teach “critical thinking.” It appears in mission... Read More

Graphic designers and proofreaders—and the businesses and governments they work for—usually succeed at eliminating errors in the... Read More

Is there a living writer more interested in flickering than Ben Lerner? It’s not just that his books flicker between fiction and... Read More

Some risked their lives for their cause. Others wielded influence through mass media. Read More

At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 – with face masks, gloves, and other basic protections in high demand – Chinese... Read More

When the original 1995 Pixar film, Toy Story, stole the hearts of a generation, the franchise’s true antagonist wasn’t... Read More