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At the beginning of On the Nature of Things, a sort of textbook of Epicurean philosophy, the Roman poet Lucretius explains his choice to... Read More

Have you heard of the newest literary conspiracy? According to author Freddie deBoer, the onslaught of positive coverage surrounding... Read More

In Los Angeles County, a Texas-shaped wedge that covers the coast from Long Beach to Santa Monica and is America’s most populous, the... Read More

There is a photograph of me as an eight-year-old standing on top of the Pont du Gard, the Roman aqueduct not far from Nîmes. I remember... Read More

1.You often reference people’s preconceived notions about you. (From your about page: “If you’re reading this you likely... Read More

George Orwell, in his immortal 1946 essay "The Prevention of Literature," delineates a distinction between two types of attackers of... Read More

Jarett Kobek and Juliet Escoria argue over who is to blame for publishers putting out AI slop. Also, Juliet thinks you should be ashamed of... Read More

Some books explain events, and other explain the world in which events become possible.  Read More

Chuck Norris died last week at the age of 86, after a remarkable career. He was part of the karate craze that swept America in the... Read More

The little Leila, with her orient eyes, And taciturn Asiatic disposition (Which saw all western things with small surprise, To the... Read More

MAGA may not deliver material benefits for the vast majority of its adherents, but it does provide them with a coherent worldview,... Read More

“We’re excited to announce that ‘The Situation Room’ by Polymarket is coming to Washington, D.C.,” read the... Read More

For the most part, I relished my eight years as staff writer for Columbia University’s Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied... Read More

Right after I graduated high school, I was on vacation with my family in North Carolina in June 2023 when I had the idea to start a... Read More

In June of 2023, Kim Francis did something that 10 years ago would have been unimaginable, but is now as American as apple pie: She... Read More

Perhaps no brand is stronger right now than that of Taylor Sheridan, the prolific Landman creator who's been a driving force behind the... Read More

Colm Tóibín writes what could be called emotional thrillers, so swift and intimate that you can’t stop reading, even... Read More

A portrait of the artist in 1986 finds him at Woods Gramercy, an upscale restaurant in what the New York Times is calling... Read More

Only two notable things have ever happened in Oxford, Mississippi. JFK and RFK mobilized approximately 30,000 soldiers and federal agents to... Read More

He’s a Master Trash-Talker KEVIN HART on Jay-Z at the poker table What people don’t know about Hov is: Hov is really funny.... Read More

I. So it all began when I reread George Orwell’s 1940 essay “Inside the Whale” for the first time in years and it sent me... Read More

In his last days in office, President Barack Obama set America on a new course. On December 23, 2016, he signed into law the Countering... Read More

I have never cared that Grey’s Anatomy or Suits is unrealistic. Yes, I believe that writers should do painstaking research, and that... Read More

A couple of years ago, when AI had come onto the market and was clearly reshaping the society, I decided that I would have nothing to do with... Read More

Halfway​ through Willa Cather’s The Song of the Lark (1915), the heroine, a young singer called Thea Kronborg, travels to the... Read More

On or about December 2010 human character changed. I am not saying that one went out, as one might into the street, and noticed that the flow... Read More

I read Atlas Shrugged in 1994. It was also in 1994 that I first read about cable television visionary John Malone. He was in the... Read More

Consider this childhood memory. When I was a little girl, before I started school, my mother taught me to write. First I learned to write the... Read More

In 2019, George Will elaborated his vision of American conservatism in The Conservative Sensibility. American conservatism is a... Read More