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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

At the beginning of On the Nature of Things, a sort of textbook of Epicurean philosophy, the Roman poet Lucretius explains his choice to... Read More

Have you heard of the newest literary conspiracy? According to author Freddie deBoer, the onslaught of positive coverage surrounding... Read More

In Los Angeles County, a Texas-shaped wedge that covers the coast from Long Beach to Santa Monica and is America’s most populous, the... Read More

There is a photograph of me as an eight-year-old standing on top of the Pont du Gard, the Roman aqueduct not far from Nîmes. I remember... Read More

1.You often reference people’s preconceived notions about you. (From your about page: “If you’re reading this you likely... Read More

George Orwell, in his immortal 1946 essay "The Prevention of Literature," delineates a distinction between two types of attackers of... Read More

Jarett Kobek and Juliet Escoria argue over who is to blame for publishers putting out AI slop. Also, Juliet thinks you should be ashamed of... Read More

Some books explain events, and other explain the world in which events become possible.  Read More

Chuck Norris died last week at the age of 86, after a remarkable career. He was part of the karate craze that swept America in the... Read More

The little Leila, with her orient eyes, And taciturn Asiatic disposition (Which saw all western things with small surprise, To the... Read More

MAGA may not deliver material benefits for the vast majority of its adherents, but it does provide them with a coherent worldview,... Read More

“We’re excited to announce that ‘The Situation Room’ by Polymarket is coming to Washington, D.C.,” read the... Read More

For the most part, I relished my eight years as staff writer for Columbia University’s Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied... Read More

Right after I graduated high school, I was on vacation with my family in North Carolina in June 2023 when I had the idea to start a... Read More

In June of 2023, Kim Francis did something that 10 years ago would have been unimaginable, but is now as American as apple pie: She... Read More

Perhaps no brand is stronger right now than that of Taylor Sheridan, the prolific Landman creator who's been a driving force behind the... Read More

Colm Tóibín writes what could be called emotional thrillers, so swift and intimate that you can’t stop reading, even... Read More