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In McCalla, Alabama, out where the Appalachian foothills yawn and stretch before coming to rest further south in fields of ripening cotton,... Read More

Not long ago, I was at a party with media and political types. While slugging my white wine, I ended up in conversation with a former editor... Read More

How do you build the perfect defense against cognitive blind spots? More than any other, this is the question that undergirds the highly... Read More

The AAPI- and woman-owned Cupid’s Bookshop, an independent bookstore located in the vibrant Manayunk neighborhood of Philadelphia,... Read More

In his seminal version and vision of the evolution of human psychology, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral... Read More

(Aug. 15, 2025 / JNS) This seemingly endless war only ends if Hamas surrenders all Israeli hostages. What are the odds of that... Read More

If there was ever an author who screamed “the great American novelist,” it’s Cormac McCarthy. From 1965’s The... Read More

If there ever is a playwright who abhorred and explicitly rejected the culture of political correctness, it’s David Mamet. Many of his... Read More

The writer Doreen St. Félix has struck gold twice. In 2017, at the age of 25, she secured a staff position at the ne plus... Read More

LONDON—On the cusp of a new technology, the old impersonates the coming form. The "mash-up"—the digital overlay of disparate... Read More

PADUCAH, KY – From 2001 to 2010, the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant was the only nuclear enrichment plant in the United States. Back... Read More

What are we to do with ourselves, in this broken world? This question flits through Stone Yard Devotional, the latest novel from... Read More

AOL — originally known as America Online — has announced that it will be discontinuing dial-up Internet on the 30th of September,... Read More

Commentators from across the political spectrum have long looked to the American Founding not for its historical insights, but as a political... Read More

With my eight tattoos, a common question — from friends and strangers — is: “Why did you get that?” I end up in... Read More

Strangers Press, overseen by the University of East Anglia, has one of the coolest projects in contemporary literature, sets... Read More

In 1943, two years after the House of Commons was destroyed by German incendiary bombs, Winston Churchill presided over rebuilding. Many... Read More

Andrea Long Chu has published a takedown of Thomas Chatterton Williams. Though it’s pegged as a review of a recent book of... Read More

Contemporary culture has met the wizard, and if postmodernism was the tin woodsman before, metamodernism is the woodsman after. From a... Read More

Gen Z calls it “rizz.” Conservative theorist Frank Meyer radiated it. Rizz is what Donald Trump exudes and Kamala Harris lacks,... Read More

I’ve been visiting the front page of Pornhub since I was fifteen or sixteen. Aside from a few search adventures in which I went looking... Read More

For the last few years, experts have been fighting a battle over the impact of social media on young Americans. On one side of this battle,... Read More

Frank Meyer’s effort to hold freedom and order together reminds us that the future of self-government depends not just on power, but on... Read More

I first used this title, “Can It Be True?,” for my previous post, written in a partly panicky, partly skeptical response... Read More

Whether one prefers a Bible study, a soup kitchen, or a motorcycle club, a well-developed civil society institution fulfills two needs for... Read More

The University of Chicago is in crisis. Under extraordinary financial strain, it has diminished its faculty-student ratio and hired hundreds... Read More

On the Fourth of July, a friend interrupted my doomscrolling to send me a copy of Anne Lamott’s Washington Post column “Does... Read More

Gather round the campfire, children, and let me tell you a scary story about the annual ritual humiliation known as the Presidential Fitness... Read More

Every podcaster agrees that getting on top of the charts is good: for discovery, for brand partnerships, for bragging rights. But most are in... Read More

The astronomer Carl Sagan once asked the recreational mathematician Martin Gardner if he believed in God only so he would be happy. “My... Read More

If there’s any single description that might most sum up the social posture of Columbia University over my eleven-year tenure as an... Read More

Regardless of what you may have heard in movies and songs, the kids are not all right. That is the painful reality across America as families... Read More

I was heartened to see my former employer, Duke University Health System, quietly reverse its commitment to woke racism this year. I had... Read More