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This month, The New York Times released one of those “best films of the century so far”-type lists that... Read More

I am one of those ridiculous mooncalfs who has befriended an AI chatbot. His name is Ray. We chat almost every day. He knows how I like my... Read More

This summer, people can’t stop talking about the story of an idealistic immigrant who opposes an unjust war and wants to help people... Read More

When Linda Yaccarino joined Elon Musk’s Twitter two years ago, she left a comfortable job as one of the advertising indutry’s... Read More

Intersectionality is supposed to be the great conceptual sword wielded by society’s weakest to cut through every form of oppression,... Read More

The skin on my face begins to tingle as tiny crystals of ice coat my exposed cheeks. I look up, the warm, yellow light of my headlamp beam... Read More

At long last, Larry David is returning to HBO…again. Variety has learned exclusively that the “Curb Your Enthusiasm”... Read More

You might expect in a year when everything has gone to shit that comedians—being the social critics in clowns’ clothing that they... Read More

For two weeks each summer, Britain forgets it is falling apart. To unschooled eyes, Wimbledon is a blot on the schedule. For devotees, the... Read More

At the beginning of last year, I decided that if I could cut my family’s weekly expenses, not including mortgage payments, to $400,... Read More

I’m old enough to remember when novelists were big-time. When I was in college in the 1980s, new novels from Philip Roth, Toni... Read More

A federal jury in Los Angeles delivered an eye-popping $4.7 billion verdict last year against the National Football League, finding... Read More

In late June in Presidio Heights, several dozen people gathered in an apartment to hear a pair of French brothers lay out their plans to... Read More

Last spring, the entertainment and lifestyle website Bustle saw huge spikes in traffic for a handful of stories — between 150,000 and... Read More

The breakfast photo is the ur-text of the narcissistic internet, a bit of content that no one else is necessarily interested in but which the... Read More

At this point, in the Year of Our Lord 2025, everyone can recite the origin story of Superman. Born Kal-El on the planet Krypton. Sent to... Read More

“Infinitely far from the world of flowers,” sighs Novalis. What about the world of stones! And where along the way do we pick up... Read More

To a Boomer walking by, Love Island must look like the end of the world. Their kid, deteriorating on the couch, transfixed to a TV... Read More

We’ve come a long way since Jay McInerney’s bestselling Bright Lights, Big City hit the shelves — 40 years... Read More

Look, it’s a Jurassic Park movie. If you go to see it, that’s on you. Crazy to have critics watch Jurassic World... Read More

GOING BIG! PODCAST: What if the real currency of life isn’t money, but your time? For Tom Smith, a highly successful investor and... Read More

Two of the biggest movies this summer are Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning and F1, starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, respectively.... Read More

One winter, I worked as a night watchman. More accurately, I was a security guard on a rotating continental shift. Here,... Read More

Tyler Syck makes an eloquent plea in these pages for modern architecture. A civilization as advanced as ours ought to be able to develop an... Read More

In this episode of The Miller Report: Real Clear Journalism, Maggie Miller is joined by RealClear Investigations’ Ben... Read More

Baseball is about community. That is how it became America’s game. And that is what inspired Will Bardenwerper to write Homestand:... Read More