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Last week, as you may have heard, former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s husband Bryon Noem was revealed to be... Read More

I’m an English professor with an interest in computers. When the first AI chatbots came out a few years ago, I began fiddling around... Read More

This Easter, Catholic dioceses across America welcomed a surge of converts. According to data collected by the religion... Read More

Professions of personal responsibility are disappearing from common language. Mistakes get made but have no makers. Rules remain hauntingly... Read More

Madeline Cash’s Lost Lambs is a family comedy so deft and winsome that only the most sterilely stolid souls could possibly... Read More

Ben Lerner writes about the hardships and humiliations of modern masculinity. His first two novels followed listless young men in their 20s... Read More

This is the second piece in our "Resurrection" collaboration with Still Alive magazine. I’ll call him Scott, because... Read More

In 1958, the United States slipped deeper into a mounting computer panic. Fears of automated job losses gripped organized labor. Industry... Read More

About a hundred pages into historian Douglas Brinkley’s Silent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson,... Read More

As an unapologetic coffee purist, I loathe what’s happened to the beverage. Frankly, I hold Seattle entirely responsible for this... Read More

A slopocalypse, if you can keep it. Surfing a tidal wave of virality, in part triggered by an apparently incorrect infographic targeting... Read More

The 2003 documentary The Fog of War, tracing the career and late-life musings of Vietnam-era Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara,... Read More

As the illness of the late Cato Institute co-founder Ed Crane escalated, and with it Crane’s pessimism about how much time he had left,... Read More

The best biopics ever made, like the worst, face a simple enough task: tell us the true-ish story of someone's life. But that simplicity... Read More

Like a lot of people today who care passionately about movies, I love A24. I don’t love every movie they make or release. But I love,... Read More

The 20th century variously imagined the end of history: rapture, communism, the triumph of neoliberalism. For the people of the Lamb of God,... Read More

“Prediction markets are gambling,” Utah Governor Spencer Cox recently posted on X. He paired the claim with a slickly... Read More

Each weekday morning, just before the city wakes, a handful of fresh-faced students make their way down Meeting Street toward the last... Read More

In 1993, Keith Waldrop published his first and only novel, Light While There Is Light. The book, which New York Review Books will... Read More

If the 1990s were an era of post-historical melancholy and the 2000s an era of retromania in which the ghosts of styles from former decades... Read More

Jamaica Kincaid really hates England, and who could blame her? In her essay “On Seeing England for the First Time,” which was... Read More

An essay on influencers could start with Marx, or theories of performance, or how doctrines of personal branding first promulgated in the... Read More

In 1833, when the outpost called Chicago was incorporated, only 350 pioneers called the mosquito-plagued bog home. Soon, canals,... Read More

Our go-to tale of resistance to technology is the story of the Luddites: In England in the early nineteenth century, skilled weavers and... Read More

Cannes Film Festival will favor the auteurs this year, with Asghar Farhadi, Pedro Almodóvar, Paweł Pawlikowski, Ira Sachs, Hirokazu... Read More

There is a particular pleasure in watching a scholar dismantle the monument he has spent a career admiring. Tyler Cowen named his blog after... Read More

Underneath the glaciers polar bears patrol along Alaska’s North Slope, the decayed bodies of their ancestors who trod there eons ago... Read More

I am probably more likely to entertain strangers when on the road than I am at work or at home. While traveling on a plane, a train, or a... Read More

“Kanye West Banned from Entering the UK for Nazism” is another newspaper headline that, in 2010, would have sounded like an... Read More

Spring comes in its usual manner: gloriously and without permission. The flowers open along the fairway edges just beyond my window,... Read More

Gwendoline Riley’s novels are not exactly easy to read and they were not, it would seem, easy to write. “I have to get to the... Read More