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Six weeks after the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk in September, University of Mississippi junior Lesley Lachman was... Read More

Johnny Gaffney is having a nightmare: He is in prison. A bunch of other inmates—skinheads from the Aryan Brotherhood—are stabbing... Read More

The white lines on the dirt football field were fresh, but by halftime they would be barely visible. It was homecoming weekend in Trona, an... Read More

Ten years ago last month, Scott Alexander published the prologue to his online novel Unsong. I’d already been reading... Read More

Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s book Listening to the Law should be read like Hemingway. You must appreciate—not just... Read More

The driving ethos of academia, “publish or perish,” is fighting for its life.  The requirement that scholars constantly... Read More

In the pandemic year of 2020, the show that dominated TV screens was not Tiger King or The Mandalorian, but a show that had ended seven years... Read More

THE DAILY SIGNAL: In this episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Jack Fowler fills in for Victor Davis Hanson and... Read More

Why does Victor Frankenstein create his monster? No one in the novel, least of all Victor, seems to know. The inspiration for Frankenstein... Read More

On a Sunday walk in my New York City nabe, I overheard an easy exchange between a pair of basic youngsters: “But it’s late,... Read More

Every Christmas, I throw off my doctoral gown, slap the monographs, the Collected Works and the many-volume Letters back onto their library... Read More

Last fall, a picture of Jeremy Strong walking down the street in New York with Karl Ove Knausgaard made the rounds online.... Read More

Dear Friend, Mark your calendar for February 11, 2026, and purchase your tickets for our third annual Samizdat Prize Gala at The Breakers in... Read More

Everybody can see there’s a crisis in New York publishing. Even the hot new books feel lukewarm. Writers win the Pulitzer Prize... Read More

Winter demands that we slow down, take stock, rest. And while we hibernate, books can keep us company. Luckily, this season, there are plenty... Read More

Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew. It’s the same when love comes to an end, or the marriage fails and people say they knew it was... Read More

Ruyan Meng’s second novel, The Morgue Keeper, follows the exhausted, ultraresilient Qing Yuan, a morgue attendant in Mao’s... Read More

THERE IS A CRITICAL tendency to call László Krasznahorkai “difficult,” a term of convenience that allows the... Read More

Once upon a time, in 1751, New Yorkers actually ventured to what is now the Fulton Fish Market to watch a cricket match between the New York... Read More

Dark Woke won’t be vanquished. In the wake of Renee Good’s death in Minneapolis, the movement is reasserting itself from the... Read More

Had my ears betrayed me? Or did the Nuremberg film actually have an American soldier draw moral equivalence between the arrest of a... Read More

When aspiring writer Jacob Garlicker witnesses a murder on the eve of his twenty-sixth birthday, it sets him on a spiral of overthinking and... Read More

$20 trillion is a lot of money. One would expect a big bang to follow the spending of twenty-thousand billion dollars. It’s a lot of... Read More