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Are you not entertained? Of course you are. We can barely move for entertainment. Songs, clips, memes, takes, games, reboots, thinkpieces,... Read More

How this story sits for you will depend on if you believe there to be a difference between a hustler and a gangster, and what you... Read More

Is it actually possible to fly too close to the sun? Like, we know air gets colder at higher altitudes—picture ice crystals forming on... Read More

Paul Kingsnorth has had an interesting career. He started as a radical environmental activist who once chained himself to a bridge to protest... Read More

As we sang “Auld Lang Syne” in the early morning minutes of January 1, 2025, the first American newborn of the year arrived to... Read More

Dawn and I learned that when you have a child with profound physical and intellectual disabilities, the end of public school — soon... Read More

Writers once liked to associate Novak Djokovic, the greatest male tennis player of all time, with inanimate objects. Some representative... Read More

On Saturday, Cassie and I watched the Red Sox take on the Reds at the Great American Ballpark. It was a crisp, sunny day, and we were... Read More

In my timelines, most of the literary discourse has been occupied with debates about the Shy Girl AI scandal in which... Read More

A couple years ago, a group of freshmen at a college in Massachusetts staged a To Catch a Predator-style sting of a so-called... Read More

HOW ARE OUR LIVES shaped and our worlds made by the languages we encounter every day? When we understand language to be a historical and... Read More

To research my New Yorker story piece, I had to read a lot of literary biographies. Most of these biographies are weighty tomes like Blake... Read More

At the 2026 Munich Security Conference, Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a rousing speech that was well-received both by... Read More

At the moment of Adam’s creation, God gave him dominion over all the living creatures of the earth. Adam’s first recorded act as... Read More

The universe of publications that share an ideological affinity with Persuasion has just become smaller. A few months after I... Read More

On a summer evening years ago, I was having drinks with some college friends in the lobby bar at the Hotel Monteleone, a landmark of the... Read More

No one understands Gertrude Stein. For this, we should all give thanks. It is almost a cliché to emphasize her work’s... Read More

ED: What inspired you to become a historian? BSB: I had always had an interest in history growing up. One of my favorite things to... Read More

I caught clips of Tucker Carlson interviewing Nick Fuentes, and the thing that struck me was the body language. Here was a man who had the... Read More

Anne Hathaway has given me a reading assignment. It’s a letter the soccer player Gabriel Jesus, who plays for Arsenal, published in... Read More

Buttermilk pancakes were a “day-one” item when Luella’s Southern Kitchen first opened in Chicago in 2015, explains owner... 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

“It happened at Yale,” reads the opening screen of After the Hunt, the recent campus drama directed by Luca Guadagnino.... Read More

Early on in Transcription, Ben Lerner’s new novel, the narrator finds himself without a cell phone. (Or more precisely,... Read More

On June 1, the National Geographic Society is opening a new, stunning, multimillion dollar museum. According to its promotional... Read More

Last week, I was “trending” on Substack. To tell you the truth, I don’t know how this whole thing started or the details of... Read More

Freddy Gray, Madeline Summerville, Ellis Henican, and Kenin Spivak join RCP's David Desrosiers to discuss how the war with Iran is going... Read More

Mark Oppenheimer is an unabashed Judy Blume fan. He admits that Blume’s language could be more vivid and her plots less predictable... Read More

Ever since Darwin, biologists have believed that much could be learned about human nature from apes and monkeys, the primates with which we... Read More

Elaine Benes was right: "Quit telling your stupid story about the stupid desert!"  In a famous... Read More

The power of the Netflix movie Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man hangs off the haunted cheekbones of Cillian Murphy, so of course... Read More

Last month, it emerged that high schools in Siberia were teaching students an unexpected text as part of “anti-terrorism... Read More