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I have not lived for a very long time, but I have already made a handful of decisions which I deeply regret, among them my decision to write... Read More

Have you ever been alone in a corporate office building late at night, fluorescent lights buzzing, AC humming? How about a mall right as it... Read More

When the historian Stephanie Coontz published The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap in 1992, it landed like a... Read More

During President Joe Biden’s term in office, the United States witnessed the largest surge in immigration in the nation’s... Read More

Unity is rare in a city as large and diverse as New York. We don’t greet each other on the street or subway, we probably disagree about... Read More

Wee Connecticut, my birthplace and where I lived until my 30s, has not one or two or three but four nicknames. The Land of Steady Habits and... Read More

Chuck Klosterman achieved cult star status in the early aughts by virtue of his pop-philosophical polemics on mainstream American culture.... Read More

It’s hard being a franchise these days. Gone are the pre-COVID monolithic blockbusters that compel your coworkers to type... Read More

I. I Hate This Story I mean, I really, really hate this story. I hate it because it’s stupid, first and foremost. Any time I’m... Read More

Within a half a mile in Philadelphia there are nearly ninety paintings of Cézanne, a tenth of his total output—the greatest... Read More

Caro Claire Burke’s Yesteryear hit all the benchmarks that a New York Times bestseller should: a propulsive premise (with a culture war... Read More

In 1989, as a divorced man living alone, I was looking for a house in the Hollywood Hills, nothing too elaborate (I couldn’t afford it... Read More

I began growing kumquat trees after my German hairdresser—who fixes BMWs and fills his salon with large, flapping plants—pulled a... Read More

For the last few weeks, I’ve been reading a journal called The Drift, which is a young (less than five years old) socialist periodical... Read More

A new study of federal court filings suggests that artificial intelligence may be transforming one of the oldest — and most expensive... Read More

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

When I speak to Colin Ross, a psychiatrist and researcher based in the US, I tell him that I have such vivid and immersive daydreams that I... Read More

Celebrations are so engrained in the history and culture of baseball that the first ever recorded high five came after a Dusty Baker home run... Read More

  This past weekend marked a tectonic shift in Hollywood that’s sent shock waves across the industry. “Backrooms,” a... Read More

Dickens wrote those words of his character Mr. Merdle, a financier whose mythical moneymaking abilities caused him to be lionized by rich and... Read More

Is it ever a bad time to talk about “new” media? (Yes.) But with BuzzFeed News recently wrapping its rise and fall with a rescue... Read More

When economists debate the future of work, they often ask the question: what will humans’ comparative advantage be? I think the key to... Read More

A driver on I-71 who takes the exit toward Ashland, Ohio, my home now for nearly three years, will be greeted with an oversized welcome... Read More

One of the most irritating things we learn in Ted Geltner’s new biography of Denis Johnson, Flagrant, Self-Destructive Gestures, is... Read More

Last month, a short story “The Serpent in the Grove” was awarded a prize and published in the prestigious literary magazine,... Read More

At the port of Piraeus, the triremes employed by the ancient Athenians had to be periodically beached to dry, their wooden hulls otherwise... Read More

It is virtually forbidden—as an unpatriotic act—that the American boy evolve into the complexity of manhood. —James... Read More

Mary, a veteran Silicon Valley marketer who can’t find a job, considers herself a victim of an H-1B visa program run amok.  Her... Read More

Alongside the curves of the Colorado River, surrounded by flatlands and scrub, Tesla’s Gigafactory sprawls over 2,500 acres outside... Read More

In David Lodge’s 1984 novel Small World, the character Persse McGarrigle is writing a Master’s thesis titled ‘The Influence... Read More