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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

Ralph Ellison​ described Invisible Man as an account of his narrator’s movement from ‘purpose to passion to perception’,... Read More

“Heteronormativity is just so broken,” declares Alex (Glori Dei Filippone), a Gender Studies master’s student at Columbia,... Read More

Winnie-the-Pooh turns 100 today. Actually, that’s not quite true. Yes, A.A. Milne’s beloved book Winnie-the-Pooh, with equally... Read More

It’s time to dig up the truth: Is Digger really all that bad? The Tom Cruise–starring doomsday satire film “will go down in... Read More

The latest solution to our romantic malaise appears to be AI matchmakers. That’s right; if you’re feeling unlucky in love, you... Read More

Ialways enjoy visiting the Portland Museum of Art (PMA) in Maine, in good and not-so-good times, and the museum is experiencing both. Its... Read More

“Hello Professor Snigdha Poonam,” the email began. I read that again. Nobody has ever called me “professor” for the... Read More

Politicians are often accused of playing toy soldiers. Rarely, however, do they actually do it. The Wargame is an exception. Sky TV’s... Read More

For Guitarricadelafuente and Miguel Bernardeau, the romance that fuels “La Bola Negra” wasn’t the challenge. “It... Read More

The American system of government, President Eisenhower once said, “has no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious... Read More

The Internet was built by men for men, most especially by white men for white men, and there’s a way in which, in the past, you could... Read More

Martin Scorsese’s “The Departed” turned 20 this month. There’s plenty that could be said about the 2006 film as it... Read More

Writers find inspiration for their fiction almost anywhere. Toni Morrison was sparked to write Beloved when, while working as an editor on... Read More

MY WIFE AND I use a budgeting app to track our Amazon orders. Last week, we compared three of them. October 18, 2021: a five-pound tub of... Read More

When I told a couple of twenty-somethings I was writing a short article about young people not reading books, their immediate response was:... Read More

Recently I heard what must be the worst song of the year—a jaunty little number from the world’s biggest musician, and possibly... Read More

It’s been a banger year for books. Cast your mind, and remember that this was the same year that Belle Burden’s Strangers became... Read More

You can’t be cruel to a toaster; inanimate objects don’t feel pain. You can’t be cruel to a computer program, either, even... Read More