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When I was very young, maybe 5 years old, I enlisted in one of the great pastimes of American childhood: the town soccer league. Twice a... Read More

When you think about it, there really is no reason not to dress up and go out dancing. That’s why, on a Saturday afternoon in late... Read More

To live with plants, even if one lives alone, is to not truly live alone. Plants are living beings, with both a genesis and a death; for a... Read More

Freya India is worried about the girls. Girls®, to be more precise. “We have been transformed from people into products,” the... Read More

For those of us who like to think literacy is a form of liberation, there's a troubling counterpoint: Mein Kampf. Adolf Hitler wasn't... Read More

THERE WAS A TIME, not long ago, when Jalen Brunson questioned all the same things about himself that his critics did. His size, his... Read More

For H. W. Crocker III, the past may be a foreign country, but going there is much more fun if you eschew preparations, steal a jeep,... Read More

When Sydney Sweeney sat down to watch the finale of Euphoria, she was just as surprised as the rest of us. “What was interesting was we... Read More

“The permanent underworld of American public life,” wrote Christopher Hitchens, “has only ever been captured and distilled... Read More

It’s no secret that these are bad times for most Jews in the diaspora. Anti-Semitism across the West has reached a virulence not seen... Read More

Here’s what literature means to me, and why it appeals to me, roughly in order of priority: It’s ambitious. It’s a... Read More

Los Angeles is a city of ten million people, each of us rubbing our eyes, filtering our water, paying our parking tickets. Doing our daily... Read More

I’m deeply saddened—indeed, gutted—to learn about the tragic death of my dissertation advisor, Gordon S. Wood. Professor... Read More

Sebastian Mallaby, of the Council on Foreign Relations, has published a deeply researched account of the emergence, rise, and prospects of... Read More

What a time to try to commemorate this nation’s founding! Imperialism is back. Militarized federal agents have been massing in cities... Read More

He was, by that point, settled into his middle-aged frame: not so much stout as softly rounded off, a slow gravitational sag sloping all his... Read More

On September 1, 1659, the English son of a Bremen merchant sails north out of Brazil on a slaving expedition. He follows the coast thirty... Read More

Oh, to live in a room filled with the objects described by Katherine Mansfield. To arrange her combs, playing cards, and enamel boxes, to try... Read More

I’m certainly not the first person to remark upon this, but the chief moral fable of the United States—young George Washington... Read More

RECEIVED A TEXT MESSAGE from my editor: “Um, is it unethical to ask you to get an AI bf?? You can prob say no.” Resentment.... Read More

Teachable. The biggest compliment a college professor can give to a book or a movie is to say that it’s “teachable.” Over... Read More

One of poetry’s great pleasures is the associative feeling a body of work evokes in the mind of the reader. Oeuvres become little... Read More

I never knew Gordon Wood well, or at all. During college, I was assigned The Radicalism of the American Revolution in an entry-level history... Read More

On a December afternoon at Ford Field, with the Steelers’ season hanging on every snap, the oldest player in the NFL hustled to the... Read More

Back in November, the State Department warned that “mass migration poses an existential threat to western civilization and undermines... Read More

Alexander Zverev has finally won a “major” tennis tournament, this year’s French Open. This means that I have also won an... Read More

Concealed carry is becoming increasingly common across America. A new survey commissioned by the Crime Prevention Research Center finds that... Read More

The Sick Child by Edvard Munch is undoubtedly a highlight of Norwegian painting, still compelling and touching, still unsurpassed. The odd... Read More

One of my favorite reading experiences of my life was Please Kill Me by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain. I read it in the months between... Read More