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On the first day of September, Guido Reichstadter made his way into San Francisco’s SoMa neighbourhood, and positioned himself near an... Read More

By the end of September, everyone had left. They had all been accepted into college. I had not. Fine, I thought. I’ll take a... Read More

Toward the end of this essay, I’m going to tell you about the time 30 years ago when Jim Harrison — the singular American poet... Read More

Dormancy: The Precondition of Spring In the mornings before work I walk through a large city park for coffee and some quiet reading time.... Read More

Scott Galloway can be annoying. In his book, Notes on Being a Man, he admits as much. A serial entrepreneur, popular podcast host, and... Read More

Why is the Right so appealing to young women novelists? The protagonists of Anika Jade Levy’s Flat Earth and Madeline... Read More

A few months ago, the musician Patrick Cosmos shared a “new unified theory of American reality” that he called “everyone is... Read More

“There are some who say the word Odradek comes from the Slavic and they look for its etymology there. There are others who say... Read More

That bad, bad time, exacerbated by the lawsuit McCartney filed on December 31, 1970, after John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr... Read More

It seems as if every year at the Oscars, another of the Academy’s old biases falls by the wayside. Genre films like Everything... Read More

I spent much of the final year of my internal medicine residency in a windowless workroom on the seventh floor of a hospital in Boston. The... 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

This article was originally published at The Empowerment Alliance and is re-published here with permission.  Did the far left... Read More

You can call me a daring and courageous and visionary “high-tech” pioneering trailblazer with nerves of steel if you want, but... Read More

Are Millennials the least freedom-loving generation in American history? It sometimes looks that way. They’re the original Occupiers of... Read More

Hello and welcome to Many Such Cases. Despite the theoretical purpose of looksmaxxing, men like Clavicular are not in pursuit of sex. He does... Read More

Everyone is panicking about the death of reading. The statistics look damning: the share of Americans who read for pleasure on an average day... Read More

Cade Cunningham is audibly angry with himself. The Detroit Pistons star player has stayed behind after a winter afternoon practice, doing... Read More

As ICE sweeps in Minneapolis have drawn wide attention, a little-noticed immigration case playing out in a New York federal court has... Read More

Sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s social graph mostly centers on international politics and finance, with a particular interest in... Read More

“I’m your Huckleberry,” murmurs Doc Holliday—pale, sweaty, tubercular, yet somehow still a portrait of virility.... Read More

On a hot day last June, near the shores of Lake Suwa, in the mountains of central Japan, hundreds of spectators gathered around an... Read More

Here in New Orleans, we just celebrated Mardi Gras, so I’m on a high. Mardi Gras always nourishes my soul. The entire city erupts into... Read More

There really is no reason, for any healthy society, to have people sleeping out on the street. A country as wealthy and powerful as the... Read More

Fewer women are having babies. When they do, they are having fewer and later. In Britain, abortions have reached their highest level since... Read More

On April 30, 2025, Netflix released a five-part, nearly seven-hour documentary on the Vietnam war. This marked the 50th anniversary of the... Read More