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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

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

The year before I got married, I moved back in with my parents. It was among the worst and longest years of my life. The arrangement was... Read More

"People were writing poems," Patricia Lockwood tells us. Also: "People brought you cabbages." In her hands, events don't unfold in the usual... Read More

What would you expect from a book by a political journalist that contains the following passage? I had thought it a blessing and still do... Read More

AI is just the latest advancement to be wrongly compared to the human mind. Read More

“Culture is stuck? I’ve heard this one before.” You haven’t heard this one, but I see why you’d think... Read More

Jennifer Lawrence is one of the most widely admired and well accoladed actors on the planet: she was the world’s highest-paid woman in... Read More

“It was a vast space, perhaps sixty by eighty feet, but with the same eight-foot ceiling bearing down on your head. It was an... Read More

The great unsung “sliding doors” moment in the history of ’90s rock begins in the summer of 1993. Radiohead... Read More

During my twenties, my friends would circle constantly circle around the same topic. They would ask, “Should I go for a career that... Read More

We’re back at it again with our annual Winter Book List. Pick up some of these books so you can curl up in your lil bed while hiding... Read More

Since most of you will already be familiar with the mighty Andrew Boryga, I can give a different introduction here than I put in... Read More

I first noticed “Fuck Kirk” scrawled in faded green Sharpie at a bus stop near campus, a few days before he died. In November,... Read More

Sometime in the 11th century AD, in the monastery of Monte Cassino, 80 miles southeast of Rome, a monk carefully and diligently copied from... Read More

IT’S 2025, and the turn to genre is old news. Since at least the 1980s, writers of “literary fiction” have been adopting... Read More

Gertrude Stein had no doubt that she was a genius. “I have been the creative literary mind of the century,” she once boasted.... Read More

The trouble with nostalgia is that it appears to rewire our minds, bringing only pleasant memories to the forefront of our consciousness. It... Read More

In June 1951, British novelist Graham Greene was cruising round the Mediterranean in a luxury yacht, the guest of movie producer Alexander... Read More