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Like any young writer, I am well aware that an invitation to speak at TED can be a career-changing opportunity. So you can imagine how... Read More

Andrei rublev, the masterpiece of the great Soviet filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky, opens with a failed attempt to conquer God. A man attached to... Read More

Though largely remembered as a novelist, there was a time when the writer Albert Camus was known more for his plays. The son of a... Read More

PJ Harvey has achieved one of music’s rarest feats: a water-tight discography with few weak spots and little repetition. The lone... Read More

Imagine going to a movie theater having only seen silent films and hearing sound for the first time. The black and white pictures on screen... Read More

I was very sad to hear the news that Matt Christman of Chapo Trap House had suffered a serious medical emergency, days before the... Read More

When Bill Murray was struggling to connect as a featured player on the second season of Saturday Night Live, he decided to get personal: At... Read More

One evening in 1932, Simone de Beauvoir joined Jean-Paul Sartre and his old schoolfriend, the philosopher Raymond Aron, for a drink at a bar... Read More

“All lives are interesting; no one life is more interesting than another.” “I simply followed events as they occurred from... Read More

I explore in my book, The Soul of Civility: Timeless Principles to Heal Society and Ourselves, that too often today, we reduce people to one... Read More

Lan Samantha Chang was a student at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop when she wrote many of the stories in her luminous debut collection,... Read More

In 1855, in what is today Wyoming and Montana, the Crow Indians seemed to face imminent extinction. They suffered raids from neighboring... Read More

We have interesting classifications of our institutions of higher learning. The Carnegie classification of major research universities... Read More

“All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.” The phrase is probably most famous now for being the only sentence Jack... Read More

Where did wokeness come from, and what can be done about it? These are the questions that US author and academic Richard Hanania aims to... Read More

In grade school, my classmates and I played a game in which the girls were ancient Roman patricians, running imagined villas where trees... Read More

Isabel Allende still remembers clearly how she used to carry the manuscript for La Casa de los Espíritus with her everywhere she went,... Read More

According to a recent New Yorker profile, Hasan Minhaj, a talented standup comedian, has exaggerated and invented some autobiographical... Read More

“The twenty-first century seems to threaten civilizational collapse at every turn,” writes Spencer Klavan in his new... Read More

As revolutions go, it’s probably better to be subjected to the bloodless kind. Our current ideological revolution (bloodless so far, at... Read More

Conservative commentators have long bemoaned the proliferation of “studies” fields in the university. Women’s and gender... Read More

WHEN I WAS A CHILD, THE MAKERS OF PUBLIC CULTURE in this country conspired to persuade me that people can’t fly. They did this by... Read More

Radical Wolfe, an upcoming documentary about my late father, the author Tom Wolfe, covers Dad’s upbringing in Richmond, Virginia, his... Read More

Back in the summer of 2020, amid a pandemic and widespread closures, tens of millions of Americans protested police violence and racism in... Read More

If you're a working opinion journalist in America, you've probably spent some time in the past few years toying with a book idea about our... Read More

The stories of the giant Gargantua and his giant son Pantagruel, of their birth, nurture, education, and heroic feats of arms; of... Read More