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In her 2011 memoir, Then Again, Diane Keaton recounted what she believed was her first memory. It was the mysterious sight of her mother.... Read More

A spooky convergence is happening in media. Everything that is not already television is turning into television. Read More

When it’s time for lunch, the old men strut naked to the cold showers for a rinse. Their hot, bony feet, arches flattened by the... Read More

The slight and soft-eyed British actor Frank Dillane is in every scene of the London-set drama Urchin. That would put pressure on any... Read More

I’ve had a few surprising celebrity sightings in my life: Madonna, so tiny, so blonde, eating next to me in a dimly lit Moroccan... Read More

Review copies of Thomas Pynchon’s new novel, Shadow Ticket, were scarce and well protected. On the first page of each galley... Read More

A young person wanting to learn something of American history could do worse than to watch the works of director John Ford (1894-1973). One... Read More

David Simon, the ex-police reporter who created HBO’s The Wire, was on NPR during the Hollywood writers’ strike a... Read More

“We used to be a proper country,” I explained to two beautiful young blonde women who were only half paying attention. It was a... Read More

Over the last decade, business leaders, university administrators, and government officials across the United States increasingly found... Read More

Lee Tilghman wants you to know she’s finished being an influencer. Once known as @leefromamerica, she spent years churning out... Read More

Spanning five decades, Charles Murray’s scholarly works focus on social policy, education, and the roots of high achievement.  Read More

Ozzy Osbourne, who became famous as the lead singer of the band Black Sabbath and then went on to a lengthy solo career, died in July at the... Read More

Right now, someone in a distant office is asking: “Can’t we do it better with less?” Efficiency is the art of subtraction,... Read More

Music is a balance of tension and resolution. A mentor once told me that the greatest composers are those who demonstrate mastery of this... Read More

In a ghost story, the appearance of the phrase “common-law partner” will be uncanny: it will sound like a dry, bureaucratic... Read More

With his tall, thin body and his long arms and legs, Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) looked more like a bag of bones than a world-famous... Read More

It’s a typical story. The woman, in the bloom of youth, arrives for dinner. The man, her senior, is already waiting inside. She’s... Read More

I feel like I have a personal connection to the now-defunct Montreal Expos. I supervise tours at Wrigley Field for my day job, and not a week... Read More

The Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai, who has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, came to attention via an... Read More

The new hit movie One Battle After Another shows Antifa-style revolutionaries rounding up ICE-like agents at border... Read More

It was my second stepfather who taught me that real men read. I am from the part of Texas where the names of the towns—Brownfield,... Read More

An intellectual yenta. That’s what Leah Libresco Sargeant said when I asked her how she understands her vocation.  Properly... Read More

Since Donald Trump burst onto the political scene in 2016, Hollywood and the mainstream media mostly have treated MAGA voices... Read More

I grew up as a tennis player, easily playing more than twenty hours a week. As the years went by, I lost interest, probably due to some... Read More

Rural is synonymous with space: unknown, untamed, trance-inducing, scary. Rural zones offer a different kind of intimacy than cities. We have... Read More

Men: What’s their deal? It’s an inescapable question nowadays. Men! They’re failing at school and at work. They have lost... Read More

The United States of America is the richest country on Earth. Read More

Seven months before ABC and Disney pulled Jimmy Kimmel Live! from the air, Elon Musk told the crowd at the 2025 Conservative Political Action... Read More

Morgan Meis and I have been talking about art for years. We’re friends and interlocutors, so I’ll refer to him by first name here... Read More

A major discrepancy in FBI data is raising new questions about how America tracks gun violence. In this episode of The Miller Report:... Read More

The Criterion Collection, the curator of the best and most influential films through the history of cinema, has just announced that in... Read More

Summer is poised to turn to fall and school is back in session. Families everywhere are getting back into a routine (or trying to).... Read More