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For as long as I can remember, I’ve wanted to work for myself. To try my own thing. The motivation was simple: I didn’t want to... Read More

This summer, the transatlantic culture war has fixated on an unlikely flash point: air-conditioning. Last weekend, I arrived in Paris at the... Read More

Robert Wright is the author of several books that fall somewhere between popular science and original speculation and is the publisher of the... Read More

This week, the American Enterprise Institute’s new Council on AI Ethics released a “founding document” outlining its... Read More

The 2026 World Cup is one for the books, a tournament of firsts. The first to be hosted by three different countries—United States,... Read More

Memoirs by historians are rare, and biographies of them more so. Eric J. Hobsbawm stands as an exception: He published critically acclaimed... Read More

In 1925, Thomas Mann had reached the apogee of literary achievement. Fresh off the publication of The Magic Mountain the year before, and on... Read More

Last November I suggested that 2026 would witness a tech backlash of unprecedented intensity. And it’s now happening with a vengeance.... Read More

I don’t read personal writing, it bores me, why would I write it? This once, though, I’ll allow a self-insertion. The ideal way... Read More

Even the best of us occasionally finds it hard to resist saying, “I told you so.” In his new book, Where Harvard Went Wrong,... Read More

Movie genres run out of steam. It has ever been thus. So many Westerns were made in the first half-century of the American cinema that they... Read More

This conversation has been edited and condensed. I exist in a funny little corner of the media landscape; I cut my teeth in hard news... Read More

I’d lived in New York for all of 15 days when the Knicks won the NBA championship. Before the final round started, I’d been... Read More

Gone is the day when elderly statesmen govern. Here is the day when eligible bachelors rule. Read More

Modern horror media is always a revelation about the world that produced it, but few of our contemporary myths feel as precisely calibrated... Read More

The biggest hit of 2026 so far, Toy Story 5 has made a whopping $160 million internationally, topping the opening weekend numbers of all... Read More

If you went back in time to New York in the early '90s, not a soul would believe you if you told them Jay-Z would end up where he is today.... Read More

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