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Hello and welcome to Many Such Cases. Despite the theoretical purpose of looksmaxxing, men like Clavicular are not in pursuit of sex. He does... Read More

Everyone is panicking about the death of reading. The statistics look damning: the share of Americans who read for pleasure on an average day... Read More

Cade Cunningham is audibly angry with himself. The Detroit Pistons star player has stayed behind after a winter afternoon practice, doing... Read More

As ICE sweeps in Minneapolis have drawn wide attention, a little-noticed immigration case playing out in a New York federal court has... Read More

Sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s social graph mostly centers on international politics and finance, with a particular interest in... Read More

“I’m your Huckleberry,” murmurs Doc Holliday—pale, sweaty, tubercular, yet somehow still a portrait of virility.... Read More

On a hot day last June, near the shores of Lake Suwa, in the mountains of central Japan, hundreds of spectators gathered around an... Read More

Here in New Orleans, we just celebrated Mardi Gras, so I’m on a high. Mardi Gras always nourishes my soul. The entire city erupts into... Read More

There really is no reason, for any healthy society, to have people sleeping out on the street. A country as wealthy and powerful as the... Read More

Fewer women are having babies. When they do, they are having fewer and later. In Britain, abortions have reached their highest level since... Read More

On April 30, 2025, Netflix released a five-part, nearly seven-hour documentary on the Vietnam war. This marked the 50th anniversary of the... Read More

Whether it is right or advisable to create beings like Heathcliff, I do not know: I scarcely think it is. But this I know: the writer who... Read More

At the start of this study of character formation, David Hein raises a tension that has bedeviled American conservatives ever since... Read More

What might a new aesthetics consist of in the visual arts? What follows is something of an answer. First though, it would be shoddy... Read More

Today is Valentine’s Day, so what to write, what to write? There’s Fragonard’s Progress of Love series at... Read More

For a young girl, the process of becoming aware of your body often involves learning what’s wrong with it before learning what’s... Read More

Indispensable during the Cold War, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s writings remain essential for our times and troubles. This, for a number of... Read More

On Monday afternoon, a 16-year-old boy fell 50 feet down an internal access shaft inside one of the towers of New York City’s... Read More

Denis Johnson wrote about some of the most unlikable characters in American fiction, and yet he always managed to make readers care what... Read More

Tom Junod is considering the epitaphs of seditionists. We’re wandering the rows of Marietta Confederate Cemetery, not far from his home... Read More

Sixty years ago I was a student at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York. Sanford Meisner, the head of the school, was, with Lee Strasberg,... Read More

Thirty years ago this month, David Foster Wallace published Infinite Jest, a strangely tender novel despite almost seeming to troll the... Read More

If man was “created from animals,” as Charles Darwin wrote in one of his notebooks, from what animals was he... Read More

My friends in NBA media tell me that fixing tanking is a huge topic. I believe them, because I too have received long emails from subscribers... Read More

BUDAPEST—I was on a plane to Europe Sunday night as the Seahawks defeated the Patriots in what apparently was a very boring Super Bowl.... Read More

The drumbeat of criticism directed at Generation Z insists that something is wrong with them. As this cohort between the ages of 14... Read More

Most Oscar movies have no audience and few admirers and are instantly forgotten (name last year’s winner). One exception is Marty... Read More

Last summer, on work trips to Portland, Oregon, and New York, and in the fall, while visiting London and Paris, I went out of my way to meet... Read More