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Last week in Montreal, a 25-year-old man allegedly attempted to assassinate the CEO of PornHub for ruining his life by preventing him from... Read More

I engage in a number of pastimes which I consider misunderstood by the public. Generally speaking, I try to be an ambassador for things I... Read More

No one is likely to ask Daniel Mason, “Is Country People really about you?” His effervescent new novel is about Miles Krzelewski,... Read More

There is a particular kind of American nonfiction that frontloads arrival. It announces itself breathlessly from the jacket copy... Read More

It’s 8:15 p.m. on Friday, June 12th, and we’re at the base of the Lincoln Memorial, a few hundred of us, for the UFC Freedom 250... Read More

Earlier this year, publishing house Hachette pulped the upcoming horror novel Shy Girl by Mia Ballard, following allegations that Ballard... Read More

After an eight-year hiatus from feature films, actor and comedian Mike Myers shocked audiences around the world with a surprise return in... Read More

The rapidly expanding Alliance for Responsible Citizenship is only in its third year – but the ideas it extols draw from the ages, and... Read More

I write about straight people because it’s what I know. Maybe we have bigger fish to fry. Maybe you have bigger fish to fry. And... Read More

As Louis C.K was publicly accused of sexual misconduct, subsequently confirmed that “these stories are true,” partially retreated... Read More

I spend more money on books than anybody I know. I’m not bragging. It’s a serious compulsion. I order two or three books a week... Read More

At a glance, Rachel Aviv’s new book looks like a conventional kind of essay collection: six pieces drawn from more than a decade of... Read More

I recently read in The Chronicle of Higher Education that I am “so bad” at defending “the humanities.” (I was trying... Read More

In the history of film criticism, as well as everywhere else, complaints about how there’s nothing new are nothing new. “The... Read More

My friend Alison and I just spent a few days in the Wachau Valley, a wine region in lower Austria. We biked along the Danube—stopping... Read More

“You’re next!” This chant, at the victory celebration of the Democratic Socialists this week, was a message not for the... Read More

I don’t know why I came to Alaska. I wanted to see the world. I needed to do something with my life besides scroll on my phone past... Read More

I was about halfway through Freya India’s GIRLS®: Generation Z and the Commodification of Everything when I read internet... Read More

Not so very long ago, getting from here to there involved the awkward origami of unfolding a large paper map in the confines of a car, or... Read More

In the summer of 1776, just a few weeks after the Thirteen Colonies had declared their independence, George Washington was in New York,... Read More

On April 17, 2026, the Parrhesia Program for Public Thought and Discourse at the University of Chicago hosted “Covering the New... Read More

IN THEIR INTRODUCTION to the new edited essay collection Reactionary Worldbuilding: From Speculative Imagination to Political Practice,... Read More

I was fifteen when I made, at least emotionally, the most difficult decision of my life: I was leaving the Jehovah’s Witnesses. I... Read More

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Convention requires me to disclose that I have known, admired, and learned from Thomas G. West for more than thirty years. I also, in 2018,... Read More

My grandmother’s courtyard in Marrakesh had a cracked blue tile near the fountain where the water always pooled. For most of my... Read More

In a coming-of-age novel about a neglected, introspective girl, a train slinks across the floor of an icy glacial lake, having careened off... Read More

The second half of the 20th century had no greater teacher of the roots of American conservatism and guardian of our nation’s values... Read More

Histories have been written about the great political conversions: Constantine to Orthodoxy for victory in battle; Henry VIII to Anglicanism... Read More

As we approach the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, celebrations of America’s history are building... Read More

He doesn’t have a cell phone or use the internet so it takes a week to get the answer but finally his publicist comes back with a... Read More

People have been debating the invention of the novel forever. For some, the first novel was the 11th Century Japanese Tale of Genji by... Read More