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Gore Vidal, who would have turned one hundred today, is not always a man easily remembered. There is no simple canon to jam him inside, no... Read More

The tail end of the 1980s—that decade in which a triumphant conservative coalition with an amiably senescent president as its... Read More

Freedom of speech on university campuses has collapsed. Left-leaning college administrators, faculty, and students have been silencing... Read More

“The royals loved the show,” said Bill Burr, a recently hired court jester to Crown Prince Muhammed bin Salman (known familiarly... Read More

In the early aughts, thanks to my then position as editor at large of this publication, I found myself in the middle of the last great feud... Read More

The past few weeks have felt unusually fraught and hectic even for the age of Trump, but some calm and closure seems to be on the horizon.... Read More

Artists wishing to capture their era face a dilemma. Let too much time pass and run the risk of subject matter losing relevance, especially... Read More

Few thinkers have generated more fascination since the turn of the century than Nick Land. Originally an anarchic academic at the University... Read More

Across five years of tireless activity, Taylor Swift has repeatedly envisioned herself in the shoes of doomed women in history and literature... Read More

It’s a familiar story these days. You might even be living inside it. Or, if not, you know somebody who is. A young man returns from... Read More

During the final month of the 2024 campaign, in an apparent last-ditch effort to appeal to young men who were defecting from the Democratic... Read More

The world in 2025 must be a maddening place for the liberal centre. These vanguards of common sense are forced to play witness, powerless as... Read More

In a sense, human beings are constantly playing games with one another. Whether finding one’s place in the pecking order, testing... Read More

We are living in the late stages of an epistemological crisis. In our modern, AI-powered era, the very idea of truth – what it is, who... Read More

The most common explanation for America’s political violence problem is that we’re hyperpoliticized, that we’re too... Read More

Editor’s note: The following essay assumes familiarity with all three seasons of The White Lotus. Spoilers are included... Read More

Two hundred fifty years have passed since the birth of Jane Austen, and her novels—prim, precise, and devastatingly... Read More

I’ve often wished that Gertrude Stein’s art could talk. Those paintings witnessed some of the most storied gatherings in... Read More

Fifty-five years ago, in May 1970, a riot erupted at the corner of Wall and Broad Streets in Lower Manhattan. A few days after the killing of... Read More

I tell people I am a novelist sometimes when I am feeling brave and I have written a grand total of 1.5 novels in 44 years. Percival Everett... Read More

LONDON—Let me start my review of an exquisite exhibition with a small gripe: "Ancient India: living traditions" is saddled with a... Read More

As the former UFC and Pride combatant Mark Kerr in Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine, Dwayne Johnson is a walking contradiction:... Read More

The last five films Leonardo DiCaprio has starred in have all been Oscar-nominated for Best Picture, and it seems fairly certain that Paul... Read More

I vaguely remember my first time going to Disney World as a child. I was seven – older than my own son by two years, and four years... Read More

Charlie Kirk’s murderer came from somewhere. We all do. Since the “In the beginning …” times, our species has... Read More

It takes years for actors to learn how to cry on command, yet for poet and author Ocean Vuong, crying comes as easily as breathing. Vuong... Read More

Ever since the year 2016, when Britain voted for Brexit and Trump was elected president, social scientists, journalists, pundits, and almost... Read More

I invited Alex Perez and Ross Barkanto join me for this episode of the podcast because I’d seen both of them write... Read More

Movie star Dwayne Johnson has a laundry list of injuries he's sustained over the course of his career as a profession wrestler and a college... Read More

The linguistics professor Naomi S. Baron recently wrote a valuable, judicious book entitled Who Wrote This? How AI and the Lure of... Read More

Is Child of These Tears a true story? Anyone familiar with the 1704 raid of Deerfield, Massachusetts will recognize some elements... Read More

“Everybody, everybody everywhere, has his own movie going, his own scenario, and everybody is acting his movie out like mad, only most... Read More

To date, 21 US states have enacted legislation requiring pornography websites (websites with over one-third explicit content) to use... Read More

If we’re being honest, table tennis is kind of dinky. It’s a game played in the interstitial moments of life: between meals at a... Read More

COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter riots put big holes in America’s downtowns beginning in 2020. Corporations went to remote work for well... Read More

The community of Grand Blanc Township, Mich., devastated by a deadly shooting on a Latter-day Saints congregation this week, has pulled... Read More

If the unthinkable happened and the U.S. military ever rebelled against our civilian leadership (i.e. the president), which side would the... Read More

There are very few times in life when a sentence written in the first person can be opened with the words “Like Flannery... Read More