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I moved to Austin with a little bit of knowledge of Texas music—but it was lopsided. I knew lots about Texas blues and the songsters of... Read More

When Paul Lynch’s novel Prophet Song won the Booker Prize last week, the notorious non-event managed to generate some... Read More

In 1984, Hayao Miyazaki’s Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind premiered in Japan. Based on the manga that Miyazaki had started two... Read More

First, let’s get something straight — the definitive answer to the question “Is ‘Die Hard’ a Christmas... Read More

Another day, another huge new AI model revealed. This time it’s Google’s Gemini. The demo video earlier this week was nothing... Read More

It was a strange year in television. The looming finales of critical darlings like Succession, Barry, and Ted Lasso, coupled with reports of... Read More

This is an overview of Niccolò Machiavelli—his backstory, his personal views, a summary of Machiavellian thought, and an... Read More

You know that conservative challenges to the American model of higher education are making inroads when they are the target of a satirical... Read More

In 1997, when James Cameron was finishing the most expensive film of his or anyone else’s career to date, he had a sharp reminder taped... Read More

The words once sent chills down my back. I first heard “River City” called over the radio in 2006. I was a staff sergeant serving... Read More

Archie Bunker was a racist, sexist antisemite, but his creator, Norman Lear, reminds us he was all talk. “There was nothing violent... Read More

Golf is about to get a little bit harder for everyone who plays it. The fault lies with a surprising demographic: the companies that have... Read More

Looking back, 2023 was a year of wild swings. And two big strikes (if you’ll forgive the pun) — first the Writers Guild and then... Read More

When you think of some of the artists who really dominated the airwaves, the culture and the headlines in 2023 — artists like SZA,... Read More

A year or so after we were married, my husband asked me a question. It was unexpected, but it started a train of thought that returned to me... Read More

Mike Hulme, a Cambridge professor of human geography who has served on the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and holds a... Read More

When the Williams family moved this summer from our long-time home in Carrollton, Georgia to Ashland, Ohio, a truth we had internalized for a... Read More

“Cancel culture” is one of those modern, politically charged terms that get thrown around so often they become easy to dismiss.... Read More

A few years ago, I attended a presentation by a professor who studies scientific, medical and technological innovation. The presentation was... Read More

MSNBC is difficult to watch these days, but so is Fox News. The warring ideologies are so comfortable in their alarmism, and their certitude... Read More

There’s an important scene in Yorgos Lanthimos’s 2009 breakthrough, Dogtooth, in which a pair of adolescent sisters experiment... Read More

This year’s list is officially a Top 25, but there was so much good music in 2023 that my Top 25 actually includes 51 albums. Also,... Read More

Magazines were my life’s blood in my formative years. I would pore over the pages for hours in my local Barnes & Noble. It was a... Read More

Reflecting on Norman Lear’s death, Rob Reiner was understandably heartbroken on Wednesday. Not only because he loved Lear, whom... Read More

Taylor Swift was a natural pick for Time magazine 's "Person of the Year." Her “Eras” tour revealed her as a... Read More

I’ve hesitated about writing on this topic—partly because I recognize my bias. I operate in the microculture. It pays the bills... Read More

I’m not exactly Joe Football over here, but I’ve a background in hearing what athletes say and using it to guide analysis.... Read More