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“There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell... Read More

In Mascha Schilinski’s Cannes Jury Prize–winning Sound of Falling (2025), a large stone farmhouse in the Altmark region... Read More

According to legend, while traveling to America to take his new theories of psychoanalysis on tour, Sigmund Freud found himself nervous about... Read More

A 20TH-CENTURY WOMAN, in despair, will shop. Take Sasha from Jean Rhys’s novel Good Morning, Midnight (1939) or Cléo... Read More

When people talk about totalitarianism, they think of gulags, George Orwell, secret police knocking on the door at night, and coercion,... Read More

There’s something a bit odd about my résumé. Right towards the top, in a single line, is Compact,... Read More

At dusk this Halloween past, under a waxing gibbous moon, in a gale that bent the trees like rabbis at prayer, the forest is haunted not with... Read More

One day in the fall of 1951, when he was a 19-year-old Harvard undergraduate, John Updike sat down to write a letter home. “Dear... Read More

On the last song on the last album that David Bowie ever recorded – “I Can’t Give Everything Away” on Blackstar... Read More

In 1897, Russian physician and scientist Marie de Manacéïne made a startling but necessary observation: “If we pay no... Read More

Marty Supreme is a bad movie. Nevertheless, it has a baffling 94 percent favorable rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a lot of... Read More

The poet Marianne Moore is credited with describing what poets do as "the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads in them." Perhaps... Read More

Actress Rose Byrne transforms herself into the ultimate Karen in If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, a film that goes from... Read More

Six weeks after the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk in September, University of Mississippi junior Lesley Lachman was... Read More

Johnny Gaffney is having a nightmare: He is in prison. A bunch of other inmates—skinheads from the Aryan Brotherhood—are stabbing... Read More

The white lines on the dirt football field were fresh, but by halftime they would be barely visible. It was homecoming weekend in Trona, an... Read More

Ten years ago last month, Scott Alexander published the prologue to his online novel Unsong. I’d already been reading... Read More

Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s book Listening to the Law should be read like Hemingway. You must appreciate—not just... Read More

The driving ethos of academia, “publish or perish,” is fighting for its life.  The requirement that scholars constantly... Read More

In the pandemic year of 2020, the show that dominated TV screens was not Tiger King or The Mandalorian, but a show that had ended seven years... Read More

THE DAILY SIGNAL: In this episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Jack Fowler fills in for Victor Davis Hanson and... Read More

Why does Victor Frankenstein create his monster? No one in the novel, least of all Victor, seems to know. The inspiration for Frankenstein... Read More

On a Sunday walk in my New York City nabe, I overheard an easy exchange between a pair of basic youngsters: “But it’s late,... Read More