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On a wall in my office hangs a plaque purchased in Waco, Texas, at the Magnolia empire of Chip and Joanna Gaines. Its inscription... Read More

Attention all action film fans! Run, don’t walk, to the nearest movie theater to see From the World of John Wick: Ballerina. Then... Read More

Brian Wilson, who as the leader and chief songwriter of the Beach Boys became rock’s poet laureate of surf-and-sun innocence, but also... Read More

When I worked in documentaries, what my job seemed to be, as much as anything else, was listening to war stories from cameramen. The most... Read More

I’m awestruck as soon as I hop out of the Escalade. Mint, lavender, and flamingo pink lights cover the Playboy Mansion in a psychedelic... Read More

Everyone has cracks; we hear that’s how the light gets in. Adeline Virginia Stephen wanted a life flooded with light. Marrying her... Read More

Among many other distinctions, including the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929, Thomas Mann accumulated an impressive number of addresses in... Read More

With seven legs and 118 shows Oasis set out on what would be their final world tour, starting in Seattle on August 28, 2008. It was planned... Read More

When Peter Phillips was brainstorming with his business partner for Massi’s, their new sandwich shop in Astoria, Queens, he wanted... Read More

Margo’s Got Money Troubles appears on the jacket to be a book about motherhood and pornography, but it’s really about the... Read More

NEW ORLEANS—In drab, windowless rooms strung along a tight corridor, migrants who have flooded into the United States in recent years... Read More

Sam Tanenhaus, at one point in the text, notes that Buckley did not always choose his friends and business associates wisely; might that... Read More

I recently re-read Tony Tulathimutte’s stunning short story “The Feminist.” It was fun to read again. The writing is so... Read More

Palm Beach slows down after Easter, with traffic notably easing up through the month of May as the largely seasonal community packs up for... Read More

JMC Resident Historian Elliott Drago sat down with JMC Fellow Dr. Christina R. Bambrick to discuss her new book, Constitutionalizing the... Read More

There’s a new No. 1 song on Billboard’s Hot 100 this week. But for chart followers like me, there’s some bigger... Read More

In the fall of 2023 my first television show—a loose adaptation of my first novel, itself already a loose adaptation of a period of my... Read More

There’s something deliciously odd about writing a “biography” of something that has never drawn breath. But... Read More

Earlier this month, Ohio State University unveiled its new “AI Fluency Program,”  a campus-wide initiative designed to... Read More

In 2016, I was living in Portland where against my better judgement, I became involved with a much younger woman, whom I fell in love with in... Read More

“I’d rather feel the sun kiss on my skin / With a cigarette pressed between my tits,” claims Addison Rae on her single... Read More

To tap into the flow state, your skill level and the challenge of the task you’re working on should be in perfect balance. This is one... Read More

Recently I hung out for a few hours with one of my readers: Arjun. Read More

William F. Buckley Jr.’s reputation is in ruins. This is through no fault of Buckley himself, nor has it been brought about by the... Read More

I’m always sad to hear about the passing of a music legend. But the death today of Sly Stone hits especially hard. Like many of his... Read More

I spent last week between the two coasts of America. Five years on from the 2020 Summer of Floyd, murals, flags, t-shirts, and other signs of... Read More

There is a memorable scene in the first installment of the final Mission: Impossible film where thousands of government workers sit... Read More

2024 was a year of anniversaries for 1928 Nobel Prize winner and Catholic convert, Sigrid Undset. The Feast of All Saints marked the... Read More

History will harshly judge the United States’ prolonged vacillation over whether to honor the Fourteenth Amendment’s command of... Read More