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At the end of 2022, just before Christmas, the college that I worked for offered me $25,000 to quit.  They offered this to all full-time... Read More

In Addiction by Design, Natasha D. Schüll’s compelling history and analysis of slot machine gamblers in Las Vegas, she... Read More

What buffer, blackguard, or mountebank was behind the ghastly disappearance and presumptive murder of the blessed innocent Edwin Drood? Was... Read More

Charles Bukowski was born in Germany in 1920. His family moved to America and he grew up in LA in the thirties where he claims he had a... Read More

Greetings from South Bend and the campus of the University of Notre Dame, home of the new Raclin Murphy Museum of Art. It’s a... Read More

What is the point of the novel in 2026? Is it still a useful narrative form in the age of scrolling shortform videos while Netflix plays in... Read More

People on the internet like to be mean to venture capitalist Marc Andreessen. At least the poor man doesn’t dwell on it. Last week, on... Read More

‘April is the cruellest month.’1 It is 1922, and the world has been abruptly roused to the modernist wreckage of the Western... Read More

Romantic love is not just the stuff of fairy tales and wishes. It might explain why some societies have developed gender equality... Read More

Ed Fitzgerald remembers the first time he worried about the new neighbor, when he first got a glimpse of what was to come. The man next door,... Read More

Written in 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” kicked off the Romantic era with the senseless... Read More

NEW ORLEANS, La.—Although they received millions of taxpayer dollars, it can be hard to find the offices of health service providers in... Read More

The rise of online provocateurs and extremist shock jocks—whether it be the likes of Hasan Piker on the far-left, or Nick Fuentes on... Read More

There are countless eras in music history that might deserve to be called revolutionary: Mahler’s Symphony No.5, the hypnotic... Read More

On Sunday, a writer named Becky Tuch posted an excerpt on X from a months-old New York Times “Modern... Read More

Toward the beginning of Killers of the Flower Moon (2023), Martin Scorsese’s guileful masterwork of unguileful plunder, a few... Read More

William, or “Mr. Able” as his students and colleagues know him, is having a crisis of faith. An English teacher in the far... Read More

It’s rare these days for television audiences to know how a new series ends before it even begins. But that’s precisely what the... Read More

In 1807, Johanna Schopenhauer sent a spectacular letter to her nineteen-year-old son, who would shortly rejoin his mother and sister in... Read More

One of my favorite psychoanalytic ideas comes from Wilfred Bion, who said that “in every consulting-room, there ought to be two rather... Read More

Joy Hui Lin, a book researcher living in Paris, was walking through the trendy Le Marais district last summer when two male... Read More

The male gaze is strong at this Collins Avenue hotel’s Japanese-inspired rooftop restaurant. When the elevator doors open,... Read More

“I could have told Heathcliff’s history, all that you need hear, in half a dozen words.” We are only a few chapters into... Read More

I was between lives when Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers was released in 2012. I saw it at the Regal Cinema on Linton... Read More

The professional trucker, once rolling from the start of his day, or after having completed loading, especially when hauling flatbeds or... Read More

OPEN TO DEBATE: In 2018, the Supreme Court struck down the federal ban on sports betting, allowing states to legalize and regulate it. Since... Read More

In this episode of The Miller Report: Real Clear Journalism, we discuss the growing legal gray zone in America’s protest movement... Read More

Fifteen years after Amy Chua popularized the Tiger Mom, that stereotype still claws at our cultural imagination. Chua’s memoir, which... Read More