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January 2022. TikTok had chosen its villain of the week. West Elm Caleb was a six-foot-four mustachioed lothario who had strung along several... Read More

A black-and-orange Christian cross lit up the outfield big screen. One hundred fifty fans gathered to hear a retired Major League Baseball... Read More

Thirty years ago this summer, the sociologist William Julius Wilson published When Work Disappears, in which he attributed high unemployment... Read More

Is Nathan Fielder interested in making something innovative and great, or does he only really care about making money? That's technically the... Read More

“Black c—k loves you!” This was the early morning cry of two young, white TikTokers outside the looksmaxxing influencer... Read More

Something in the literary world isn’t adding up. On the surface, the numbers aren’t looking good. If you’re an American,... Read More

The first thing every music student learns is the scale: an ordered series of notes which, in Western classical music, consists of twelve... Read More

From the confines of our culturally diminished present—in which UFC cage matches are held on the White House South Lawn while the John... Read More

“Every artist’s work changes when he dies,” the painter, critic, documentarian, and writer John Berger wrote of the Swiss... Read More

The month of October 1926 included dates relating to two individuals who contributed mightily to the communal gaiety of the twentieth... Read More

Speaking to The New York Times a few days before Digger (2026) hit theaters, Alejandro G. Iñárritu said that the script of his... Read More

In 2014, when sports betting was still banned in 49 states, National Basketball Association commissioner Adam Silver wrote that “sports... Read More

Classical liberals and conservatives this year have been busy celebrating two concurrent events: the 250th anniversary of the publication of... Read More

When I want to see human equality, I visit a graveyard. When I want to experience excellence, I watch the NFL. When I say the NFL, I do not,... Read More

There’s a certain kind of novel that’s not quite apocalyptic enough to be science fiction, but just far-fetched enough to be... Read More

In the suburbs of Chicago where they both grew up, it was just pizza, according to Brittany and Brennan Grosvenor, the couple behind Proof in... Read More

Much of what we find meaningful in relationships we might call friction overcome. Great art reflects this. In the 1962 François... Read More

Earlier this year, billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller wrote an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal attacking Treasury Secretary Scott... Read More

Around two a.m. on Saturday, December 8, 1962, the presses stopped. Not with a dramatic yell and a frantic pull of the kill switch to run... Read More

There’s a question that’s been bugging me for months, breaking through my generally optimistic disposition like the rays of a... Read More

More than any other person I have never met, Wendell Berry shaped how I understand myself. The writings of this farmer-prophet of rural... Read More

For the last four Mondays, in a vault-like neoclassical building that houses the Masonic Grand Lodge of Tennessee, behind a perimeter of... Read More

Prior to this month I was beginning to worry there was something wrong with me. In a year of new waves, record-breaking hits, and extreme... Read More

Paweł Pawlikowski’s Fatherland is a postwar period piece mapping a Germany whose broken halves reflect distorted mirror images:... Read More

Very little is certain in our tumultuous times, but one thing I can always rely on is being let down by a popular or acclaimed piece of... Read More

Carlos Mora ran a textile factory with 150 employees in a Venezuelan border town. Today he works as a handyman on the outskirts of Miami,... Read More

What is art to the man who has it all? The world’s richest have taken a particular interest in antiquity, especially epics of an... Read More

The old saw that money is the mother’s milk of politics is a bipartisan truism universally recognized on both sides of the aisle.... Read More

This week’s front-page headlines have been filled with war, betrayal, corruption and lies. I couldn’t be in a happier mood. Not... Read More

Charli D‘Amelio — the reigning queen of TikTok — loves to dance. Whenever a new song comes on at this photography studio in... Read More

Mexican director Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s newly released film, Digger, shows how satire inevitably fails when it tries to... Read More

One of the most revealing exchanges in You Can See Everything centers on a single word. Nathan Fielder, the film’s co-director,... Read More

It feels important to mention from the jump that I’m an Elizabeth Holmes neophyte. When I went to see You Can See Everything, I had no... Read More