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Toward the beginning of Killers of the Flower Moon (2023), Martin Scorsese’s guileful masterwork of unguileful plunder, a few... Read More

William, or “Mr. Able” as his students and colleagues know him, is having a crisis of faith. An English teacher in the far... Read More

It’s rare these days for television audiences to know how a new series ends before it even begins. But that’s precisely what the... Read More

In 1807, Johanna Schopenhauer sent a spectacular letter to her nineteen-year-old son, who would shortly rejoin his mother and sister in... Read More

One of my favorite psychoanalytic ideas comes from Wilfred Bion, who said that “in every consulting-room, there ought to be two rather... Read More

Joy Hui Lin, a book researcher living in Paris, was walking through the trendy Le Marais district last summer when two male... Read More

The male gaze is strong at this Collins Avenue hotel’s Japanese-inspired rooftop restaurant. When the elevator doors open,... Read More

“I could have told Heathcliff’s history, all that you need hear, in half a dozen words.” We are only a few chapters into... Read More

I was between lives when Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers was released in 2012. I saw it at the Regal Cinema on Linton... Read More

The professional trucker, once rolling from the start of his day, or after having completed loading, especially when hauling flatbeds or... Read More

OPEN TO DEBATE: In 2018, the Supreme Court struck down the federal ban on sports betting, allowing states to legalize and regulate it. Since... Read More

In this episode of The Miller Report: Real Clear Journalism, we discuss the growing legal gray zone in America’s protest movement... Read More

Fifteen years after Amy Chua popularized the Tiger Mom, that stereotype still claws at our cultural imagination. Chua’s memoir, which... Read More

In The Image, his landmark 1962 book about how mass media was warping American life, historian Daniel Boorstin coined the... Read More

What does health, or being healthy, mean to you? Daily poop. Experiencing nature. Feeling peaceful. Reading books that reduce fear,... Read More

There is a famous line, often quoted and excerpted, from the 1970 documentary Meeting the Man, about the great American writer James... Read More

In times of scrolling, my eye passes over so many images I start to see myself, as if my brain were projecting me in the pictures, only the... Read More

I’ve been wanting to write this for a while because, more often than not, I find myself doomscrolling, screaming “NOT ALL... Read More

I should explain, for American readers, what a judicial review is in the UK. It is not quite the same as suing the government, though it has... Read More

Sometime in the Miocene, some 20 million years ago, the long edges of the North American and Pacific plates catch a chunk of north-south... Read More

The late 20th century was the golden era of the diva. In the ’80s and ’90s, iconic stars like Tina Turner, Diana Ross, and... Read More

Chuck Norris (almost) always won on screen. He was a world karate champion in real life. But following the action star’s... Read More

I am now almost certain that I live in the sourdough capital of the world. Not a sourdough capital. The capital. Every town within... Read More

In a diary entry from February 1922, Franz Kafka writes of a deal he made with madness: There is a certain failing, a lack in me, that is... Read More

Michel de Montaigne may be the most influential essayist in history—even Shakespeare borrowed from his work (taking some passages... Read More

If you have had the chance to fill out a recent college teaching application in the U.S., you may have noticed that you are required to write... Read More

On this week’s episode of the RealClearInvestigations Podcast, RCI Editor J. Peder Zane and RCI Senior Reporter James Varney speak with... Read More

I’ll start this review with an admission: I wasn’t overly eager to rea... Read More

It was a brisk summer afternoon in Lakewood, Colorado, August 24, 2016. Mark Pedersen was on the back deck when he noticed the commotion.... Read More

In 1983, Telluride Film Festival co-founder Tom Luddy took Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky on a road trip. Tarkovsky’s... Read More

One of the peculiarities of English-language academic publishing is that, unlike the French and the Germans, and regardless how esoteric the... Read More

n Yanomamö villages, rules aren’t enforced by courts or police. In these small-scale communities in the Amazon rainforest, when... Read More

Bats migrate across the twilight. A fingernail moon hangs between city buildings. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds emerge from the parkland of The... Read More