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I’ll say this for Digger — it made me think. Specifically, it made me think about two things: 1) just how condescending Alejandro... Read More

For the eighth season of Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry David—the show’s star, creator, and Chief Zeitgeist Officer—decided to... Read More

As strange as it may sound, rock and roll is the conservative movement’s fraternal twin. They were born at the same time. The very year... Read More

MY FRIENDSHIP WITH August Lamm began the old-fashioned way. We were introduced at the Brooklyn dive bar Sharlene’s after a book reading... Read More

Britain’s Labour government labeled Palestine Action a terrorist group in July 2025. The Irish novelist Sally Rooney responded by... Read More

I’ve done a lot of Justin Herbert analysis while avoiding the most interesting aspect of his spectacular decline. Maybe I’m still... Read More

One of my joys in traveling to Brazil, which I did recently for the seventh time, is dining. In general, Latin America is the great... Read More

Tom Cruise may possibly be the biggest movie star in the world. His career has been a constant stream of blockbusters spanning more than four... Read More

In a special episode of “Get Real” this week, host David DesRosiers speaks to the former publisher of Forbes magazine, Jeff... Read More

Because no one reads anymore, it’s increasingly common for people to opine on the state of literature who have not seen or touched a... Read More

Young women today have unrealistically high standards. When I speak to conservative young men about dating, this is something I often... Read More

On Saturday night, I saw the Smashing Pumpkins live for the first time in over a quarter century. They were playing a 15,000-seat arena. If... Read More

I try to keep my guard up. As we see the fallout of the successes of Marvel and Star Wars having compelled studios to buy the film rights to... Read More

The women of Gen Z have once again done a service to society by giving us (among many other useful terms, like “pick-me girl,”... Read More

Here follow two visions of the poet Allen Ginsberg. First vision: from “Lunching with Ginsberg,” an essay by the poet August... Read More

From a young age, we ask kids what they want to be when they grow up. Firefighter, doctor, president, mechanic, astronaut, teacher,... Read More

In a journal entry in 1958, Sylvia Plath wondered how her mother would feel if she discovered who her daughter really was. What if she found... Read More

Musk, Alex Gibney’s latest documentary, is nearly four hours long with a ten-minute intermission, which is surely more time than any... Read More

You can see everything is a remarkable sentence. Four words; infinite possible interpretations, depending on who is speaking and in what... Read More

This year marks the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Michel Foucault, one of the most influential French philosophers of the past fifty... Read More

In the summer of 1921, a business journalist named Samuel Crowther reached out to Ernest Liebold, the personal secretary of automobile... Read More

Cultural elites and educators of the Global North are now in an advanced state of panic surrounding reading, literacy, and the humanities... Read More

The notifications kept coming: “I hope you sit in the discomfort of the backlash you are rightfully receiving and realize that, even... Read More

In the opening chapter of R. F. Kuang’s 2023 novel Yellowface, June Hayward faces a dilemma. She has just stood by and watched while... Read More

If $10,000 can’t buy you a house, why not gamble it? That might not seem like a sound financial decision, but it’s an... Read More

On or about December 2020 everything changed. In retrospect what mattered wasn’t so much the pandemic — it was bad of course and... Read More

At the tail end of summer, Dwight Garner accomplished what few legacy media critics have since the days of Michiko Kakutani: he wrote a... Read More

Sun Deluxe by Frederick Barthelme is an absolute smorgasbord; it’s your favorite characters in your favorite settings doing your... Read More

There are certain chores around the household that—as a boyfriend, fiancé, and now a husband—have always been my... Read More

You Can See Everything is nominally a documentary about the medical-tech fraudster Elizabeth Holmes and the 34 days she spends with her... Read More

Meaning matters. Sixties counter-culture turned The Lord of the Rings into a phenomenon because it saw the books as an anti-war,... Read More

Working from home for good (or evil) forced me to get serious about a home office. For decades, I’d been toiling away in a finished... Read More

IT’S BEEN A ROUGH COUPLE of weeks for Austin Abrams. First, he goes off to Raccoon City to make a medical delivery, only to get... Read More

What does it mean to be a man? In the early 21st century, masculinity is contested and fraught with anxiety; influencers offer models of... Read More

Kenneth Connell is standing on a dusty runway in northeastern Lebanon. He’s far from home and a quarter million dollars into the... Read More