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A few weeks ago, the Scouts BSA troop my 11-year-old son belongs to faced a decision. With many of its older scouts graduating, there were... Read More

A couple weeks ago, the Bloomberg writer Joe Weisenthal went mini-viral on Twitter for something I think he’s largely on the money... Read More

In the summer of 1996, I left China for America to pursue graduate study. I have now lived in America for 30 years, longer than I lived in... Read More

Fifteen summers ago, as Obama’s first term was waning, I was newly eighteen and driving up I-75 through a thunderstorm to join my... Read More

This past May, the globally famous pop star Lizzo was spotted on the side of a busy road in Los Angeles, putting up her own posters. Wearing... Read More

It is said that when Gandhi was asked what he thought of Western civilisation, he paused for a few seconds before replying: “I think it... Read More

I waddled into the doctor’s office in the stripmall in Florida with 20 pounds of ankle weights strapped to each leg hidden under my... Read More

In the 18th century, the streets of East London were filled with flowers. Fuchsias, auriculas and star-of-Bethlehem grew from the window... Read More

One of my most played DVDs as a preteen growing up in Brazil was called Rouge: O sonho de ser uma Popstar [Rouge: The Dream of Being a Pop... Read More

Near the beginning of his long narrative poem “Letter to Lord Byron,” W. H. Auden writes, “I want a form that’s large... Read More

The parking lots on Prairie Street in Inglewood love to see me coming. Whenever I’m running late to a show at the Forum or... Read More

Who gets to be an artist? Or rather: who gets to be called one? These and other questions are present but unarticulated in ‘American... Read More

It’s tragic that the country’s 250th anniversary is coming at a time of profoundly performative division. In one part of America,... Read More

On this week’s episode of the RealClearInvestigations Podcast, J. Peder Zane speaks with Noah Rothman of the National Review about his... Read More

Independent bookstores and saddle-stitched fanzines will be the death of me yet. I was already a writer, of term papers for hire, yes, but... Read More

This is a curious novel with a lot of moving parts which are coordinated well. Like Don DeLillo’s Underworld and Rachel Kushner’s... Read More

The third-oldest college in the United States is small and, to borrow a word from the headline of a recent positive article about it in The... Read More

As we approached the Ellipse – the park south of the White House – the scene came into view all at once. In the distance stood a... Read More

Elvis Presley is on a short list of the most quintessentially American figures. He lived an American life, defined by humility and excess,... Read More

Tom Bower is the only celebrity biographer who does his job properly. All his biographies are unauthorized, from his first essay in the form,... Read More

The trouble with impressive new technologies is that they have the uncanny ability to expose the awfulness of our relationship to one... Read More

Few would consider Argentina’s legendary striker Lionel Messi an underdog. But the top-scoring player in World Cup history is in one... Read More

In only the last several years, corporate CEOs and conservative influencers have been killed in brazen attacks. Republican justices,... Read More

During the plague years of 2020 and 2021, I was a participant in a sub-realm of Twitter, made up of a mix of “facephag” and anon... Read More

Louis Armstrong’s Hot Fives and Hot Sevens began turning 100 last year. An epochal centennial in American music! These 70-plus tracks,... Read More

PORTO, Portugal — Portugal feels awfully far away from America’s 250th-birthday celebrations this weekend, but a brand-new... Read More

I’ve never really liked the Resy interface. It’s functional when I know exactly where I want to eat and when, and can therefore... Read More

These United States we celebrate this weekend are a big and wondrous collection of beautiful places with a rich and glorious history. From... Read More

With America’s 250th anniversary upon us, we’ve been thinking about style—specifically, the women who embody American... Read More

TOWARD THE MIDDLE of Now I Surrender, the 2018 novel by Álvaro Enrigue newly translated by Natasha Wimmer, US Army Lieutenant Charles... Read More