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Some years ago, I dated somebody who matched with me on a dating app because I identified myself as someone to whom religion is important. He... Read More

The patriarchy died in its sleep sometime during Obama’s first term. Or so goes the argument of The End of Men, a 2012 polemic... Read More

Did you hear the one about the comedy writer who went to divinity school? He thought it could bring Americans together. It’s not... Read More

In 2012, a photography student named Katie decided to sign into a Chatroulette-style site called Omegle that matched her with a random user... Read More

This review was originally published on January 26, 2024 out of the Sundance Film Festival. We are recirculating it now timed to A Real... Read More

Expectations can destroy a good TV show. For most new series, the first season is all about grabbing attention, introducing a group of... Read More

There are certain artists who are so visionary, so daring in their originality, whose work casts such a primal and enduring spell that it... Read More

“New York is a city of things unnoticed,” begins the essay that opens “A Town Without Time,” a new collection of Gay... Read More

In the literary world this week, a hackneyed writing genre got an unexpected revival: the stern-faced #MeToo callout. Fearlessly exposing a... Read More

Today's guest is near and dear to my heart. It's my dad, Diego Ruiz. For the record, my dad and I recorded this in person, and we both... Read More

Glenn Loury is the Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences in the Department of Economics at Brown University, a position befitting... Read More

It is fitting that Vice President-Elect J. D. Vance, having overcome a difficult upbringing himself, helped Rob Henderson with his drafts... Read More

In a farewell address on Wednesday (boo hoo, so sad), Joe Biden suddenly found himself concerned by what he deems an emerging American... Read More

American lawmakers are about to determine the future of pornography, or they’re trying, at least. In recent years, 19... Read More

On a bookcase in the London offices of Ridley Scott Associates sits a framed memento: a Pupil’s Report Book from the County of Durham... Read More

Kurt Russell hates commies. I mean, he has to, right? The actor — and the man — defies definition, boxes, genres, tracts,... Read More

What is public life? In the leadup to the election, the evangelical author Nancy Pearcey tweeted out an appeal for pastors to be more... Read More

One of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s remarkable early accomplishments was the long poem that lent its title to his 1961 collection of... Read More

Taylor Sheridan, the most overextended man in television, has done it again. Landman, according to the internal metrics at... Read More

Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to “get back to our roots around free expression on Facebook and Instagram” marks an astonishing... Read More

Like any instinctive conservative, I wanted to give my children the kind of childhood I had. I had all the rudiments of what is now wistfully... Read More

In his 1956 study The Meaning of Contemporary Realism, the Marxist philosopher and literary critic Georg Lukács distinguished between... Read More

In the spring of 2009, Vice published a blog post, notorious even by its own standards, titled “Department of Oopsies!—We Hired a... Read More

In the closing sentence of his article for the 2019 Christmas issue of The Spectator, Sir Roger Scruton wrote, “Coming... Read More

Football at the University of Notre Dame du Lac has never been a matter of mere entertainment. Excellence in football is what made Notre Dame... Read More