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It was summer 2021, and my mother’s desk was a mess, including a torn envelope from the IRS shoved in the back of a... Read More

George Saunders’s luminous new novella Vigil begins with a fall of a kind – lower-key, sinless and very funny:... Read More

Pulp fiction is pulped. At the end of 2025, Readerlink Distribution Services, which distributed as much as 70% of mass-market... Read More

Freddie DeBoer’s debut novel, The Mind Reels, is about a girl, Alice, who slowly goes crazy, gets medicated, goes crazy again,... Read More

“Never double-text. Girls don’t like that now,” my friend explained to me. Read More

I grew up in a family where the practice of going to confession was actively discouraged. At liturgy with my Greek grandma, the priest... Read More

The poet said beauty is truth. Okay, sure—but I don’t think you’ve really understood Keats’s practical meaning until... Read More

Until 2025, the name “Alexandre Kojève” was a paradox. A philosopher often invoked yet rarely read – a famous... Read More

My feet are bare and so are my companions’. We are walking over cool deep-pile carpet and what feels like rough forest floor as we... Read More

According to popular perception, universities have become cesspools of radical left-wing indoctrination, dominated by cultural Marxism,... Read More

America’s story is true myth. For 250 years, we have attacked the earth, sky, sea, and space, not to conquer or control but to improve... Read More

As the dominant economic and social force of our time, a handful of Silicon Valley-based companies shape our politics more than we’d... Read More

We are all beneficiaries of the Enlightenment. Nevertheless, it is also true that this world-changing political and philosophic movement has... Read More

It’s a feeling moviegoers don’t experience much anymore: that rush upon walking out of a theater and feeling... Read More

In 1869, a group of Massachusetts reformers persuaded the state to try a simple idea: counting. The Second Industrial Revolution was... Read More

Ren Duka is a fictional writer and the narrator of the fictional Ren Duka novels, an autofictive cycle recounting Duka’s adventures in,... Read More

Heterosexuality has been deemed dangerous for as long as I can remember. In the 1990s, before I was born, an influential faction of feminists... Read More

Beware the biographer: the scuttler in the archives, the interviewer of relatives, the Monday morning quarterback, the renderer of... Read More

Last week, comedian and political commentator Jon Stewart published an interview with Nobel Prize-winning economist Richard Thaler... Read More

I’ve been asked to write about my flip phone. I’ve been asked to make this funny, but there’s nothing really funny about my... Read More

You will probably watch the Super Bowl on Sunday. Maybe you’re a casual fan. Maybe you’re a football nut who wants to see how New... Read More

After the chaotic early 2020s, when the NFL led the way by leaning into woke nonsense like kneeling for the national anthem or... Read More

On Sunday night, millions of people across the United States and throughout Latin America tuned in to watch the National Football... Read More

“We all love Thomas Paine. We just wish we liked him.” — Jonathan Turley Jonathan Turley’s new... Read More

During my first year of college, in February 2018, when I’d convinced myself that biology was my vocation and that poetry exceeded my... Read More

Americans are facing a “crisis of connection,” according to a 2025 survey from the American Psychological Association. The... Read More

In his new book, “Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution,” Professor Turley explores the... Read More

There’s something very religious about nihilism. For proof, look to the new capital of American nihilism, Minneapolis. A callousness... Read More

Is there any more unhelpful term in popular use today than “attention”? Experts have been telling us for some time that we live... Read More