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Byung-Chul Han is one of Europe’s most widely read philosophers. His audience in the United States has grown considerably over the last... Read More

Sigrid Nunez is a baby boomer who seems younger, because idiomatic speech always sounds young. She’s been publishing fiction between... Read More

How sexy is a pop star really allowed to be? Not very, if recent controversies about the male gaze are anything to go by. Serving cunt must... Read More

The Domestic Policy Council has just published its audit of the woke poison at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History:... Read More

I regularly read on the subway. Physical books. Increasingly, these books are leatherbound tomes. I’m at high risk of someone sneaking... Read More

CHRISTOPHER NOLAN HAS ONLY ONE official trilogy under his belt. His Dark Knight Trilogy involves a masked man waging war on crime bosses,... Read More

Dust to dust. Silicon Valley’s Congressman Ro Khanna, who years ago won his place in Washington with a pro-business, generally moderate... Read More

Even if most of what you know about the World Cup is that it’s currently happening, you might also know that Lionel Messi is involved.... Read More

On the morning of the summer solstice last month, Karol G tells me she’s been learning to untame herself. “When people say a... Read More

A recent essay in The Atlantic tells us what most of us have already surmised: reading is dead, and it’s not coming back. In “The... Read More

I was raised to the rhythm of 1190 KEX AM. I napped to Yusuf/Cat Stevens, sang Fleetwood Mac with my mom, and got my first lessons in amour... Read More

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is this summer’s hot new movie. Nolan’s epic has gained both praise and criticism, the... Read More

Heatwaves have pushed temperatures to record highs across both Europe and the United States. Yet the human toll between these two locales was... Read More

On this week’s episode of the RealClearInvestigations Podcast, J. Peder Zane and James Varney speak with Tablet writer and RCI... Read More

Here are some questions that I consider self-evidently compelling about the modern world: Why is the news media so interested in telling... Read More

Speaking as someone who has never played football and almost never watches it, here are 10,000 words explaining exactly where England went... Read More

Rachel Aviv’s new book, You Won’t Get Free of It: Stories of Mothers and Daughters, published this week by Knopf, takes its title... Read More

In The Flame, Leonard Cohen’s posthumously published collection of late lyrics and poems, I came across this lone stanza: and Nico was... Read More

In November 1964, the U.S. Government Printing Office released what might be the most specialized reference set ever published. At 18,000... Read More

Upon turning forty, I gained a new appreciation for the classic mid-century affair novel (e.g. John Williams’s Stoner). You know the... Read More

Coffee rules the world, it built modern society and allowed us to push the boundaries of what’s possible. In the northeast we have no... Read More

Last year in December, Compact published Jacob Savage’s piece “The Lost Generation.” The polemic went viral. He was... Read More

Where am I from? I’m from New York City. But I never felt more like a New Yorker than during the year I moved to New Orleans. Every... Read More

Seventy-five years ago this week, a book was released which, according to one exasperated parent, included 237 uses of the word... Read More

When I first moved to Brazil, I was overwhelmed by its vastness and diversity. Brazil is physically larger than the 48 states, and includes... Read More

There are people who go for runs, and then there are runners. Going for a run requires a pair of running shoes. Being a runner is a... Read More

Should this review be scrawled in invisible ink? Should it self-destruct? Will you self-destruct when your “secret life” is... Read More

We first meet Lucy, the bright (but sometimes misguided) narrator of Emeline Atwood’s debut novel A Real Animal, dangerously high up in... Read More

The sleepy city of Exeter has become the locus of the country’s fraught battle over universities. Three weeks ago ago, its local... Read More

In his influential 1979 book The Culture of Narcissism, sociologist Christopher Lasch argued that while human beings have always feared... Read More

Like a lot of people, I was dubious about Edward Snowden from the first time I heard his name. I make the usual — and usually correct... Read More

For years I dreamed of silence. Between a home with three young children and a pediatric clinic crowded with restless kids, the noise at... Read More

As announced by his family in a social media post this morning, acting legend Sam Neill has died at the age of 78. Of the heightening pile of... Read More

Blue diamonds. Vermeer paintings. Gold bars. These are the treasures of great heist novels. But Nathaniel Rich’s new thriller... Read More

Citizenship requires an understanding of how government works, particularly the poorly covered and oft-maligned judicial branch. Few people... Read More