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STORY, WYOMING — It’s open mic night at The Wagon Box inn. The crowd has just been treated to two love poems, an ancient... Read More

I probably took a bullet to the head because of the things that they say about me,” Donald Trump said during his debate with Kamala... Read More

Human beings are not brains in vats. We are not computer code. We are sensory, social creatures whose minds are inextricable from our bodies.... Read More

A few weeks back, on an episode of the pod that turned very existential, Twitter's Audrey Horne (rightly) pressed me about what she... Read More

In a text first published in 1991 and translated into English as “To Stay Alive”, Michel Houellebecq offered self-help advice to... Read More

The first time I applied to Tony Tulathimutte’s CRIT, the workshop he teaches from his living room in Crown Heights, I was... Read More

“I got into this profession thanks to women,” Alain Delon, who died last month, said in 2018. “They’re the ones... Read More

It’s an ordinary portrait of a man wearing a duckbill beret, a small piece of luggage in each hand, and he’s leaving. You... Read More

Carl Hiaasen and I were talking about recent absurdities in Florida politics, namely Moms for Liberty and their fight against a... Read More

Someone I was texting once told me I had “volcel energy” — as in voluntary celibate, as in the stolid aura of a woman... Read More

Let’s say you’re an 0-2 NFL team. Here’s the good news: Starting the season with a pair of losses isn’t quite as... Read More

In a globalized world, why should anyone want to be German, French, Spanish, or Hungarian? “None of the above” isn’t a... Read More

In 1967, Pepperdine College commissioned the historian and conservative man of letters Russell Kirk to write a history textbook for the... Read More

Back when Donald Trump was last running for election, as the Great Awokening made its speech-chilling sweep through the American media, a... Read More

When it comes to celebrating Constitution Day, it may be considered atypical to think of the Declaration of Independence. After all, the... Read More

Award ceremonies are always more fun when there’s a surprise or two stuffed into the envelopes. There was a big one waiting at the end... Read More

When Telegram founder Pavel Durov was arrested by French authorities at the end of August, the move came as a shock. But among the few who... Read More

To make it as a pop star in the age of TikTok, you need a few tricks up your sleeve. Firstly, you need to have an ambiguous gender. Think... Read More

It’s a reasonable assumption that thousands of people around the world have imagined themselves in the situation I found myself in last... Read More

So I have a stupidly simple theory on why quarterback play has glaringly declined in recent years. Patrick Mahomes, the league’s best... Read More

In postwar America, an epidemic of heroin addiction swept the world of jazz. Greats who developed a habit included John Coltrane, Bill Evans,... Read More

Conservatives rightly recognize that the common good, and thus a coherent politics, requires a shared definition of virtue derived from a... Read More

Emily Witt didn’t set out to write the first great book about what it was like to live through the Trump presidency, the beginning of... Read More

Working for Fox News comes with a lot of assumptions. Just ask Kat Timpf. The whip-smart co-host of “Gutfeld!” and Fox News... Read More

My father Leo is a Jewish refugee from the former Soviet city of Ufa. As his 19-year-old son, I left home for college last year well-versed... Read More

Escalating lawfare sealed the collapse of the Roman Republic after 500 years of extraordinary success. For the last century or so of its... Read More

By all rights, Midland should be hitting the slots right now. The Austin, Texas, trio are the funnest thing going in country music, the types... Read More

Unicorn. Superstar. Five-tool player. “Showtime.” Greatest of all time? Pick your nickname or adjective, it likely describes... Read More

Top Gun: Maverick was released on May 27, 2022. The view here is that the movie was boring, trite, and even quite “woke”... Read More

We are living in an age of apparent contradictions. On the one hand, U.S. birthrates are at an all time low, well below replacement rate. And... Read More

The French Catholic poet, dramatist, and diplomat Paul Claudel once wrote that sometimes we need to look at our watches and ask, “What... Read More

Translators are told over and over that they have to maintain fidelity, that they should not be unfaithful, that they should not take... Read More