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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

As reading habits wane, we devotees of books rally to one another like the exiles on the train tracks in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451.... Read More

Wait till it’s been at least a year since the last time you dieted. Five years is better, but sometimes we don’t have five. There... Read More

Civics centers, teaching civic and classical education through “Western civ” and great books, are often described as conservative... Read More

It’s hard to write about Wikipedia. It’s like trying to write about every Russian novel or the banking system. It contains too... Read More

In 2015, The Oberlin Review, the Midwestern college’s paper, reported on student dissatisfaction with the school’s dining... Read More

Over the summer, when I told friends and colleagues that I’d be taking part in a “Pro-Human Assembly” in Washington, DC, in... Read More

Blake Griffin would seem to have it made. The Oklahoma native is a six-time NBA all-star with matinee looks, a cushy studio gig for... Read More

Can moral claims be true or false, or do they merely express personal feelings and cultural conditioning? If objective moral truths exist,... Read More

Judi Dench has said she “loathes” being called a national treasure, because it makes her feel old. Hopefully she won’t mind... Read More

If you fancied a really brilliant time in Elizabethan London, you could do worse than visit the Paris Garden in Southwark. There, bears were... Read More

I am proud to say that as part of our new union contract, Current Affairs recently adopted one of the strictest anti-AI policies in the... Read More

This November three early albums from the British socialist singer Billy Bragg are being reissued in deluxe vinyl formats. The records are... Read More

It’s election time!  Read More

If you’re not following Francis Fukuyama on Instagram, you’re missing out. His posts exemplify a Boomer picaresque aesthetic: the... Read More