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Has the celebrity era in American politics come to a close? This might seem like a peculiar question to ask in the wake of Donald... Read More

The 2024 election was a repudiation, among other things, of the secular theology sometimes known as the Great Awokening. It is that secular... Read More

A whopping 80% of evangelicals voted for President-elect Donald Trump in 2024. But behind that headline number, the dramatic fall in these... Read More

After several decades during which tariffs were discarded by the bipartisan establishment, trade protectionism is back at the center of... Read More

Aaron Gwyn, a novelist and English professor at University of North Carolina at Charlotte, was not always so interested in the written... Read More

I asked men, actual living men, what they really wanted for Christmas this year. And - just like last year - they... Read More

Almost nothing I have written in the last few years has given rise to more correspondence than a throwaway column about reading, in which I... Read More

It’s the last installment of our anticipated reads list for 2024, and we’re ending things with overseas literature from Buenos... Read More

Behind the feline eyes, the serrated cheekbones and campy glamour, there is a hint of pain to Melania Trump. She displays a vulnerability, a... Read More

For much of her life, the German philosopher Hannah Arendt, best known today for The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) and her... Read More

Beauty’s only skin deep. But as the humorist and playwright Jean Kerr sagely pointed out, skin deep is plenty deep enough: “What... Read More

The older I get, the more convinced I become that the golden age of entertainment was in the late-1980s and 1990s. Historian Rudyard Lynch of... Read More

The greatest presidential servants are those who are modest and self-effacing, whose sole purpose is to help the president succeed without... Read More

Americans are bored of reading. A 2021 Gallup poll found that the average American now reads 12.6 books per year, down from 18.5 in... Read More

“Israel is pressed, it is a suffering country,” a sympathetic visitor says with a sigh. International organizations, the... Read More

Perhaps no sector better exemplifies the economic recklessness, inflation, and elitism that Americans rejected last month than academia. What... Read More

To receive the Encounter Prize for Advancing American Ideals is truly an honor. The work of my friend Roger Kimball and all his Encounter... Read More

Dear Reader, When Donald Trump returns to the White House, you can be sure that RealClearPolitics will feature supporters of his agenda. And... Read More

If there is any cultural and intellectual institution today that has the sanctity of the old New Yorker, it’s the New York Review... Read More

Recently, over drinks, Wilfred McClay voiced disappointment about the absence of a distinctly Southern perspective in today’s... Read More

If you could be transported back 50 years, to the London of 1974, where would you choose to be a fly on the wall? Surely at 52 Campden Hill... Read More

Over the course of the last decade, a seductive idea has conquered the discourse: the notion that the sudden surge in political instability... Read More

“Empire is the US from roughly WWII to a little after 9/11. It was at the height of its power, its prestige, and its economic worth.... Read More

The Beat writer William S. Burroughs began his second book, Queer, just months after killing his wife, Joan Vollmer, at a party above the... Read More

Kyla Scanlon knows it’s easier for most people to talk about their bowel movements than to talk about money. Unlike bathroom habits,... Read More

August Lamm is a writer and artist from New Haven, CT. Her recently published pamphlet, You Don’t Need a Smartphone, calls for a... Read More

On Election Night, I stayed up late with my dog. We lay on the couch together. He napped. I tried to avoid checking the stupid New York Times... Read More

For years, the Left has recognized the cultural significance of sports and has used sports to promote cultural transformations that would... Read More

To receive the Encounter Prize for Advancing American Ideals is truly an honor. The work of my friend Roger Kimball and all his Encounter... Read More

Brotherhood is a term deeply rooted in rugby, resonating across teams worldwide. It stems in part from the sport's origins—as a... Read More

Last month, I briefly tuned in to see Jake Paul and Mike Tyson dance in the ring for a boxing match that was really just an example of... Read More

Many “very online” men —I think they’re men: some are bots, many are genderless pseuds — are angry. Many are... Read More