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Melania, the new movie from Amazon Studios, follows First Lady Melania Trump through the 20 days before the second inauguration of her... Read More

Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign was powered by its embrace of the white working class. It also drew energy from its rejection... Read More

Toward the end of the 1980s, Richard Meyers found himself looking for work. It was a familiar situation. Over the years, he’d been a... Read More

In the early 1970s, Italian cities were flooded with what were known as capelloni—young leftist men who sported long hair as a way... Read More

At the screening of Marty Supreme that I went to before Christmas, Timothée Chalamet said that his performance was in part... Read More

I confess, at the outset, I won’t spend as much time on this essay as I’d like. I am under pressure to finish a nonfiction book... Read More

Risk 2. Deference: The Feedback Vacuum Around Power By the time highly successful people feel motivated to step out as public... Read More

Modern civilization would like you to believe that your brain is a faulty appliance requiring constant software updates. It must be... Read More

America has always had her boomtowns, lawless places where heathens mass, where gunslinging bandits and foolhardy speculators go in search of... Read More

In the minds of most journalists, all human history can be summed up with the words, “Rome fell, then Hitler came.” A few more... Read More

In the days after Taylor Swift bought the master recordings of her music from the private equity firm that controlled them, girls (and grown... Read More

Singling out AI for special, technology-specific prohibitions shifts attention away from harms and toward methods, discouraging the very... Read More

There has long been a divide between those who believe that artificial intelligence is an enormously transformative technology and those who... Read More

“When people first see Mount Rushmore, most are shocked by its size, though not in the way they expect,” Matthew Davis writes... Read More

Software can now write software better than even the most advanced human experts. And where software has gone, the other learned professions... Read More

Sports betting has become an epidemic, especially among young men. Read More

Because President Donald Trump administration’s immediately responded to the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by demonizing them... Read More

Allen Iverson finally wants to talk about practice. "The Answer" opens Misunderstood: A Memoir recounting a question that would... Read More

There are many ways to be difficult in this world. You can be demanding, inconvenient, stubborn, complicated, troublesome, baffling,... Read More

When I first read Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita – on the recommendation of my young, handsome English teacher – I was... Read More

In an interview last month with Fandango, writer-director Emerald Fennell explains why the title on the Wuthering Heights poster is in... Read More

Beginning with Hermione Hoby’s New Yorker essay a little over two weeks ago and continuing with a diverse series of... Read More

In mid-2025, right after the final member of BTS, the biggest band in the world, had served out the mandatory military service required of... Read More

Wealth may or may not trickle down; bad ideas certainly do. Read More

In 100 days, a man will be making the final preparations for his attempt to run faster than any human being in history. Fred Kerley, the 2022... Read More

Though man may be the measure of all things, as Protagoras said, the relationships man forms with animals may also be a measure of man.... Read More

Mike and Claire Sardina of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, were a likable couple with a story of compelling social interest. Through the 1990s, the... Read More

When Warner Bros. released the poster for Emerald Fennell’s upcoming film adaptation of Wuthering Heights, the visual language was... Read More

Heterosexuality is in crisis. Young people aren’t dating, and the ones who are often find themselves on a romantic hamster wheel,... Read More

The online Right lit up last week with the scandal of two right-wing influencers (one of whom was a Catholic who had her marriage... Read More

Via Kite & Key Media - America’s system of federalism means the 50 states can have dramatically different laws.In other... Read More

FOR SUSAN SONTAG, cinema declined one decade at a time. The 1890s was the decade of the miracle of invention. In 1900, silent cinema soared.... Read More