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In The Image, his landmark 1962 book about how mass media was warping American life, historian Daniel Boorstin coined the... Read More

What does health, or being healthy, mean to you? Daily poop. Experiencing nature. Feeling peaceful. Reading books that reduce fear,... Read More

There is a famous line, often quoted and excerpted, from the 1970 documentary Meeting the Man, about the great American writer James... Read More

In times of scrolling, my eye passes over so many images I start to see myself, as if my brain were projecting me in the pictures, only the... Read More

I’ve been wanting to write this for a while because, more often than not, I find myself doomscrolling, screaming “NOT ALL... Read More

I should explain, for American readers, what a judicial review is in the UK. It is not quite the same as suing the government, though it has... Read More

Sometime in the Miocene, some 20 million years ago, the long edges of the North American and Pacific plates catch a chunk of north-south... Read More

The late 20th century was the golden era of the diva. In the ’80s and ’90s, iconic stars like Tina Turner, Diana Ross, and... Read More

Chuck Norris (almost) always won on screen. He was a world karate champion in real life. But following the action star’s... Read More

I am now almost certain that I live in the sourdough capital of the world. Not a sourdough capital. The capital. Every town within... Read More

In a diary entry from February 1922, Franz Kafka writes of a deal he made with madness: There is a certain failing, a lack in me, that is... Read More

Michel de Montaigne may be the most influential essayist in history—even Shakespeare borrowed from his work (taking some passages... Read More

If you have had the chance to fill out a recent college teaching application in the U.S., you may have noticed that you are required to write... 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

I’ll start this review with an admission: I wasn’t overly eager to rea... Read More

It was a brisk summer afternoon in Lakewood, Colorado, August 24, 2016. Mark Pedersen was on the back deck when he noticed the commotion.... Read More

In 1983, Telluride Film Festival co-founder Tom Luddy took Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky on a road trip. Tarkovsky’s... Read More

One of the peculiarities of English-language academic publishing is that, unlike the French and the Germans, and regardless how esoteric the... Read More

n Yanomamö villages, rules aren’t enforced by courts or police. In these small-scale communities in the Amazon rainforest, when... Read More

Bats migrate across the twilight. A fingernail moon hangs between city buildings. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds emerge from the parkland of The... Read More

According to “The Women Leaving the New Right,” a viral piece by Sam Adler-Bell in New York magazine, the movement has... Read More

Imagine Vladimir Nabokov submitting Lolita to a Master of Fine Arts degree program. First, under the tenured wisdom of his... Read More

I used to regularly skip school on the first two days of March Madness. Those beguiling opening-round days, where it feels like absolutely... Read More

“I coach boys how to be fucking boys,” says streamer HsTikkyTokky when we first meet him in Louis Theroux’s latest Netflix... Read More

“American Diner Gothic,” published in The New Atlantis and newly viral on X, coins a term for what author Robert Mariani sees as... Read More

DOPAMINE HITS ARE abundant these days: for better or worse, we live at a stage of history when quick satisfaction can be easily achieved.... Read More

I. The first time I tried reading John Cowper Powys was during the summer of 2019. I had just moved from one apartment to another (right... Read More

This week, the venture capitalist Marc Andreessen declared war on “introspection.”  Read More

Editor’s Note: This review contains spoilers.  There is a scene early in Project Hail Mary that tells you... Read More

In 16th century Rome, the Italian philosopher and occultist Giordano Bruno was famously burned alive for his beliefs. The mainstream... Read More

Lindy West is the most successful feminist writer of her (and my) generation. In her pomp at Jezebel, she mastered both viral... Read More

AI culture is here, and the question is now: will it be friendly to us? Read More

Even before Ida (Jessie Buckley) becomes a black-bile-spewing revenant, you wouldn’t call her a proper lady. At a shady gin joint in... Read More

Antonin Scalia's jurisprudential legacy has flourished far beyond what anyone might have reasonably imagined at the time of his death 10... Read More

You know these people. East Coast writers of varying degrees of seriousness. Center-left on both the political spectrum and the Kinsey scale.... Read More

I. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury — before the defense begins, I propose two axioms regarding the dangers of literary myth-making... Read More

During the New England section of Pete Hegseth’s manufacturing-focused “Arsenal of Freedom” tour, the Secretary of War... Read More

Ryan Gosling’s sci-fi epic “Project Hail Mary” lived up to its name, collecting a stellar $80.5 million in its box office... Read More

When I read that Major League Baseball was partnering with Polymarket, I did not expect much controversy.  Read More