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Since artificial intelligence went mainstream a few years ago, it has done double duty as a political personality test: tell me what you... Read More

Leonard Cohen was, and remains, an enigmatic figure. In his life, he toed an unsteady line between rockstar-dom and cerebral, ascetic... Read More

Years ago, I attended a college graduation ceremony in Missouri. The graduates and faculty wore black gowns. During the procession, the... Read More

In 2018, hours after Andrew Sean Greer won a Pulitzer Prize for Less, I got him on the phone in Italy and asked if he was... Read More

Flannery O’Connor enthusiasts know that she spent the final thirteen years of her life (1951-64) living with her mother, Regina Cline... Read More

From elementary school into adulthood, boys and men read less, and less well, than girls and women. Fourth- and eighth-grade boys are roughly... Read More

The 1994 World Cup was America’s first summer fling with soccer. Robin Williams monkeyed about at the pre-tournament draw calling... Read More

IN EARLY 2026, something happened that Big Tech proponents had both longingly anticipated and deeply feared: an agentic AI system was... Read More

That will-o’-the-wisp, the great American novel, at least in the modern period, almost inevitably features an automobile. The fatal... Read More

It might be the most celebrated arrest in American music history. Sometime in early 1913, a New Orleans street kid, who might have been as... Read More

Over the last few decades, thinkers within religiously oriented philosophical traditions have done significant work showing how these... Read More

In London, when the sun briefly peeks out from behind the almost permanent cloud cover to warm the gray metropolis, locals typically react to... Read More

“I definitely want a cool house,” said a man in his late 20s, who works as a researcher at one of the frontier AI labs. He stands... Read More

Victor Wembanyama is all the rage. The 7-foot-4 shot-blocking, rim-destroying, opponent-embarrassing center from Le Chesnay, France, has been... Read More

When University of California President Clark Kerr delivered the Godkin Lectures at Harvard in 1963, published shortly thereafter as The Uses... Read More

Part of the peculiar predicament of being human is our need to remember, not simply in the sense of retaining useful lessons acquired in our... Read More

In January 2005, when I was in college, I wrote a blog post called “Feminism means primping for all.” It was around this time... Read More

Tomorrow the Obama Presidential Center officially opens. Last week I wrote about the architecture of the museum and proselytizing building,... Read More

We find this passage in a letter written by John Updike to his girlfriend Mary Entwistle Pennington on April 1st, 1952, sent from the... Read More

A woman lies face down on the wall-to-wall carpet of the banquet hall of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, eyes closed, concentrating on... Read More

Somewhere, most likely in the former CEO of Nike’s basement, stands a statue of a woman with her legs in the air. She is wearing a red... Read More

According to Shakira, the most successful World Cup song of all time arrived in the form of divine intervention.  On holiday in 2009,... Read More

The first thing to notice about you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love — especially compared to anything any other mega-pop star has... Read More

When I began teaching in 2007, I did so nontraditionally, coming into the classroom through a backdoor accreditation program. Equipped with a... Read More

America’s largest cities are increasing their spending at almost unprecedented rates. A RealClearInvestigations analysis of cities with... Read More

From my earliest memory I lived with books of all kinds. There were stacks on my bedroom floor, and they lined the dusty walls of my... Read More

Every so often news organizations foist upon us surveys or polling telling us how “young people” feel about the issues of the... Read More

At dawn, the corncrake is practicing its crex crex call. The pewit answers in stilted beeps. Summer’s ooze filters through the early... Read More

The Hungarian intellectual Ferenc Hörcher recently lamented that conservatism suffers from a dearth of serious theorists. This is not,... Read More