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Cloning is back, baby—and with it, our fascination. No longer carrying a thrilling frisson of disaster, it slowly appears to be... Read More

About halfway through Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning, Tom Cruise goes for a run on a treadmill. The treadmill is on the... Read More

Olivia Nuzzi has always known how to spot a good story, especially when she can put herself in the middle of it. The now-infamous journalist,... Read More

I. Fifty-six-year-old Elizabeth Gilbert is one of the bestselling authors of this millennium. Her nine books—memoirs, fiction, and a... Read More

After over a decade of critical furor around how novels would incorporate (and survive) plot-destroying phones and social media, the latest... Read More

As a producer of sentences, paragraphs, and pages worth reading, John Updike was voluminous. Over the course of his life he steadily,... Read More

Cameron Crowe’s long-awaited memoir The Uncool can be read intertextually as the real Almost Famous. Read More

Author Ben Appel found that he didn’t need to live in a religious commune to experience cult dynamics. He only needed to go to... Read More

I was 18 when I met my first pick-up artist. It was my first year of university and I was at a Halloween house party, dressed as a... Read More

Since the pandemic, social media feeds have been quietly bearing witness to a small but revealing homesteading revival. For many, the grocery... Read More

Many conservatives, myself included, have recognized the wisdom of a populist turn in our politics. A roused populace was necessary to... Read More

Every era of easy money produces its speculative mascots. In the late 1990s, it was Beanie Babies — tiny stuffed animals that cost... Read More

No matter where one looks these days, there is an explosion of anger over the decline in political ethics and the dominant role now played by... Read More

While Andrews is right about the institutional costs of feminized modes of behavior, the solution is not reverse engineering DEI but reviving... Read More

“Do you think that the bad things that we do follow us through life?” That’s the question Robert Grainier asks Arn Peeples... Read More

“Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise,” read the Hebrew plaques above the door of New York... Read More

Probably the best-known thing Nick Fuentes has ever said about women is that a lot of them want to be raped. After... Read More

Poetry always involves a motion toward reality on every level. The word manifests our situation, to ourselves and afterwards to others, and... Read More

Administering an exam used to be straightforward: All a college professor needed was an open room and a stack of blue books. At many... Read More

Is it the year of the man? I still remember seeing, last year, the front page of The New York Times after Donald... Read More

Like many great actors and virtually all legitimate movie stars, Timothée Chalamet is a salesman at heart. But where most of... Read More

I’ve been teaching English at the University of Guelph since the ’90s. Every four years, it’s like an entire... Read More

In the third grade, my teacher asked if we knew the difference between Democrats and Republicans. I immediately shot my hand up and recited... Read More

Joseph Cohen had worked for an organization in Britain devoted to encouraging Jewish-Muslim dialogue and combating antisemitism. But... Read More

Martin Scorsese first considered making a television series about the saints in the 1980s after the success of Mean... Read More

Peter Matthiessen was a towering figure in 20th-century American letters. He was a naturalist, environmentalist, Zen... Read More

For the kids out there, Jack Benny was a well-known comedian whose radio career began in the 1930s, with his popularity spanning decades and... Read More