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Sisters Olivia and Mary Thomas MacKinnon competed over the lead role in The Nutcracker at a special performance in Mobile, Alabama.... Read More

Not long ago, after a years-long renovation, the Metropolitan Museum of Art reopened its collection of European paintings from the 14th... Read More

There’s a curious resonance between writers and the names of their first biographers. Proust, for instance, twinkles in the eye of his... Read More

In Stockholm it didn’t snow on Christmas or New Year’s Eve or at the beginning of January. The days were gray and, in the... Read More

They say Londoners are never more than six feet from a rat; it’s the same with Hollywood blondes and telephoto lenses. And like the... Read More

Looking back at what we’ve watched over the past 12 months, one thing is clear: Between keeping up with all the movies hitting theaters... Read More

Literary fiction is dead. Or, so we’ve been told. Perhaps we can agree it lies bleeding. It’s convenient to assume that... Read More

In my late teens, when I read Henry James for the first time, the experience did nothing for me. I felt faintly repelled by the blocks of... Read More

With the publication of Blue Ruin, Hari Kunzru has rounded off a loose trilogy about the cultural and political constitution of our present,... Read More

Every few days, I open my inbox to an email from someone asking after an old article of mine that they can’t find. They’re... Read More

Lately, I have spent an inordinate amount of time thinking about Guy Pearce’s face. That dramatically protruding bone structure. The... Read More

You expect to find witty artwork in a book titled Kate Carew: America’s First Great Woman Cartoonist, especially if the... Read More

Dear Reader, When Donald Trump returns to the White House, you can be sure that RealClearPolitics will feature supporters of his agenda. And... Read More

On TikTok, influencers tout protein powder as key to building muscle and nourishing their bodies — all in a quick,... Read More

On November 4, 1932, the Friday before the national election that would send Franklin Delano Roosevelt to the White House, T.S. Eliot spoke... Read More

Last week, a cable news pundit struggled to understand the new media landscape. So he sought advice from his teenage son. He asked the... Read More

‘Tis the season to write about Bob Dylan, considering that a new movie about the Nobel-Prize winning, genre-defying artist will be in... Read More

The Brutalist, if you couldn’t guess by the title, is a film about architecture. This is a genre with an unfortunate track record,... Read More

It is becoming more difficult to form great teams, which makes it harder to elevate new superstars, which is what fans want. Read More

Imagine if Luigi Mangione had shot the CEO of a company that made light bulbs, or dishwashers, or breakfast cereal. Perhaps a few ideologues... Read More

In a 1939 essay, the critic Philip Rahv argued that there have been two main types in American literature: the solemn and semi-clerical,... Read More

It was Christmas Eve 2016. I’d just moved to NYC in September and by December, I could be honest with myself about how things... Read More

Today I want to talk about a different sort of production. Not munitions, but movies. We know that countries have “industrial... Read More

When it comes to political and cultural commentary, Steve Sailer is one of the most influential writers whom most people have never heard of.... Read More

They "ate, slept, made love, raised children, and tried to keep body and soul together by finding ways to make a living." Those were the... Read More