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The summer between my freshman and sophomore years of college, I slunk back to my Indiana hometown and got a job at one of the... Read More

Ethan Hawke, 55, is a girl dad, which shows when he sits down to speak with Sydney Sweeney. At 28, the actor-producer who first broke out on... Read More

As near as one can tell, the business rationale for artificial intelligence rests on the hope that it will substitute for human judgment and... Read More

For the last few years, I’ve worried about Silicon Valley taking over Hollywood. But things reached a tipping point back in... Read More

Roger Pielke Jr., a public-policy expert who had studied the intersection of politics and climate science, had been battling the prophets of... Read More

Even among those of us who believe movies are the perfect art form, movies themselves are rarely perfect. That’s where actors come... Read More

Dear Republic, If you are into LitStack, then you definitely know Naomi Kanakia. Naomi writes in a bewildering array of forms and... Read More

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With an awards season and year-end lists that tend to favor films that have been released in the last few months, many things can go... Read More

At the turn of the 20th century, the city became a source of concern, something to study, something to ponder. On the back of the... Read More

It’s rare to find a good children’s movie in the streaming age. Rebooted plots draw on nostalgia but offer little else. Animation... Read More

When Steven Soderbergh expressed frustration over the commercial failure of his well-reviewed Black Bag back in March, his comments... Read More

Gov. Gavin Newsom has made reducing the homelessness crisis in California a top priority, saying the scale of the state’s efforts is... Read More

We get the world we praise and support. If you honor and reward a behavior, you get more of it. If you don’t support what you need... Read More

In 1995, Newsweek announced: “Bisexuality is the hidden wild card of our erotic culture.” By the time I started college... Read More

The bureaucracies that govern cultural life today are fundamentally uninterested in cultivating any proper sense of what art is, what it is... Read More

The boom in literary readings, plays, happenings, branded parties, and debates — of which, for better or worse,... Read More

One of the greatest weeks of my life was the week David McCullough came to teach a one-credit course at Hillsdale College in 2006.... Read More

There is a long tradition of stories about artists that are also about the question of how to represent life in art; novels about artists... Read More

It was a momentous occasion in the history of passenger rail in the United States. On August 28th, Amtrak’s next-generation... Read More

The release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT writing program has produced yet another round of AI art debates, with almost everyone either... Read More

Tom was always a right-of-center guy. Wealthy, in tech, but never particularly partisan: “I was never a card-carrying... Read More

There are people who collect sensible things, like pensions or matching dining chairs. Then there are people like me, who collect books and... Read More

A few weeks ago, on one of the busy, sticky, spectacularly unpunctual trains for which my country is justly famous, I sat next to a young man... Read More

Some months ago, I invited three interlocutors with different metaphysical commitments to a Signal chat with me over the course of five days... Read More

Everyone born since the year 2000 has lived with unregulated Internet pornography. Among children, recent litigation demonstrates that... Read More

On this episode of The Miller Report: Real Clear Journalism, Maggie Miller is joined by James Varney to break down his review, which... Read More

2025 marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of the great modern mythmaker Edgar Rice Burroughs—creator of Tarzan, Mars explorer... Read More

The Lebanese Civil War. Corporate agri-capitalism. Tips for surviving a nasty divorce. Violence, unfettered avarice, and the need to hold on... Read More

The machines are coming for us, or so we’re told. Not today, but soon enough that we must seemingly reorganize civilization around... Read More

Taking Religion Seriously is Charles Murray's most recent book. Although the world-famous political scientist has published books outside of... Read More