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Nov 13, 2025
Roy Kuhlman (1923–2007) worked during the mid-twentieth century, when graphic design was defined by experimentation. He designed seven hundred book covers and jackets for Grove...
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Nov 6, 2025
I FOUND IT.
These words were written in large black paint on the white wall of our yearbook office in high school. The phrase, both declarative and yet somehow hinting at things left...
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Nov 3, 2025
Charlie Brown is 75. The media celebrations of the Peanuts’ anniversary all note that, seven-plus decades on, the strip still resonates. It is funny while, at the same...
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Oct 17, 2025
Everyone wants to tell Taylor Swift what to do. The woke left is outraged that Swift, the world’s biggest pop star, fell in love and is getting married. They fear Swift may be...
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Oct 10, 2025
The Criterion Collection, the curator of the best and most influential films through the history of cinema, has just announced that in November they are releasing a special...
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Oct 7, 2025
In a recent appearance where she introduced her classic 1974 movie Foxy Brown, Pam Grier said something beautiful. Grier was talking about how the so-called “battle of the...
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Aug 27, 2025
As was recently reported in Hot Air and Breitbart, I am organizing an Anti-Communist Film Festival for the fall of 2026 in Washington, D.C. I’m also doing a...
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Aug 14, 2025
We called them the Pantheon.
They were the men we turned to when things weren’t going well. When, for example, we didn’t sell a story we had written to a magazine, or our...
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Jul 30, 2025
It’s been used by former President Bill Clinton, Greenpeace, and Vice President JD Vance. It has inspired, and annoyed, generations of music fans.
It’s...
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Jul 25, 2025
William F. Buckley, the godfather of modern conservatism, appeared on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson over a dozen times.
This is a startling fact,...
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Jul 21, 2025
It’s fitting that in his forthcoming book, The Last Line of Defense: How to Beat the Left in Court, Senator Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) quotes Milan Kundera. Kundera is best...
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Jul 16, 2025
Smith was the head of the NFL Players Association from 2009 to2023. On Aug. 5, he will publish a new book: Turf Wars: The Fight for the Soul of America’s...
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Jul 2, 2025
Movie fans who are tired of superhero epics or kids’ movies often call for more adult fare at the cineplex. Yet I’m not sure audiences could handle the realism for which...
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Jun 26, 2025
This year marks the 35th anniversary of the publication of poet Robert Bly’s massive bestseller and ’90s cultural phenomenon, Iron John: A Book About Men....
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Jun 24, 2025
I really wish I could stop reading the Sunday New York Times. The political content is pure communism, but it’s the arts coverage that lures me in every week.
A recent...
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May 20, 2025
Catholic scholar Paul Elie has written a penetrating, provocative, and insightful book. In The Last Supper: Art, Faith, Sex, and Controversy in the 1980s, Elie explores...
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May 14, 2025
In a 2004 essay called “Social Life, Literary Desires, Literary Corruption,” Norman Mailer examined what he thought was wrong with journalism. It’s been taken over...
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May 7, 2025
I’ve just finished reading a review copy of a terrific forthcoming book: You Wanna Be on Top?: A Memoir of Makeovers, Manipulation, and Not Becoming America’s...
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Apr 22, 2025
About 20 years ago, I attended a symposium at Howard University in Washington, D.C. called, “I Remember U.” The purpose was for scholars to videotape a large group of...
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Apr 18, 2025
A book that should be a part of every high school curriculum in America is Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Safe Your Life by Wynton Marsalis. Marsalis is...
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Apr 3, 2025
It’s understandable why Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story, was ignored by feminists, even though the film was screened in March, which is Women’s History...
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Mar 25, 2025
In the spring of 1985, I walked into my father’s office on the seventh floor of National Geographic and found myself face-to-face with what, arguably, would become...
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Mar 20, 2025
I recently paid a visit to a nearby grocery store. A year ago, I helped build it. I was returning after a break of a few months. It’s time to pick up some shifts for the spring...
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Mar 17, 2025
I wasn’t sure how to write about Colin Vallon. The brilliant Swiss jazz pianist is one of my favorite musicians, and his new album Samares is ravishing. I wanted to...
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Jan 28, 2025
All day is a long time. That’s both an observation and the name of a novel by David Sanchez. The book’s protagonist is a man named David who gets addicted to...
Nov 13, 2025Roy Kuhlman (1923–2007) worked during the mid-twentieth century, when graphic design was defined by experimentation. He designed seven hundred book covers and jackets for Grove...
Nov 6, 2025I FOUND IT. These words were written in large black paint on the white wall of our yearbook office in high school. The phrase, both declarative and yet somehow hinting at things left...
Nov 3, 2025Charlie Brown is 75. The media celebrations of the Peanuts’ anniversary all note that, seven-plus decades on, the strip still resonates. It is funny while, at the same...
Oct 17, 2025Everyone wants to tell Taylor Swift what to do. The woke left is outraged that Swift, the world’s biggest pop star, fell in love and is getting married. They fear Swift may be...
Oct 10, 2025The Criterion Collection, the curator of the best and most influential films through the history of cinema, has just announced that in November they are releasing a special...
Oct 7, 2025In a recent appearance where she introduced her classic 1974 movie Foxy Brown, Pam Grier said something beautiful. Grier was talking about how the so-called “battle of the...
Aug 27, 2025As was recently reported in Hot Air and Breitbart, I am organizing an Anti-Communist Film Festival for the fall of 2026 in Washington, D.C. I’m also doing a...
Aug 14, 2025We called them the Pantheon. They were the men we turned to when things weren’t going well. When, for example, we didn’t sell a story we had written to a magazine, or our...
Jul 30, 2025It’s been used by former President Bill Clinton, Greenpeace, and Vice President JD Vance. It has inspired, and annoyed, generations of music fans. It’s...
Jul 25, 2025William F. Buckley, the godfather of modern conservatism, appeared on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson over a dozen times. This is a startling fact,...
Jul 21, 2025It’s fitting that in his forthcoming book, The Last Line of Defense: How to Beat the Left in Court, Senator Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) quotes Milan Kundera. Kundera is best...
Jul 16, 2025Smith was the head of the NFL Players Association from 2009 to2023. On Aug. 5, he will publish a new book: Turf Wars: The Fight for the Soul of America’s...
Jul 2, 2025Movie fans who are tired of superhero epics or kids’ movies often call for more adult fare at the cineplex. Yet I’m not sure audiences could handle the realism for which...
Jun 26, 2025This year marks the 35th anniversary of the publication of poet Robert Bly’s massive bestseller and ’90s cultural phenomenon, Iron John: A Book About Men....
Jun 24, 2025I really wish I could stop reading the Sunday New York Times. The political content is pure communism, but it’s the arts coverage that lures me in every week. A recent...
May 20, 2025Catholic scholar Paul Elie has written a penetrating, provocative, and insightful book. In The Last Supper: Art, Faith, Sex, and Controversy in the 1980s, Elie explores...
May 14, 2025In a 2004 essay called “Social Life, Literary Desires, Literary Corruption,” Norman Mailer examined what he thought was wrong with journalism. It’s been taken over...
May 7, 2025I’ve just finished reading a review copy of a terrific forthcoming book: You Wanna Be on Top?: A Memoir of Makeovers, Manipulation, and Not Becoming America’s...
Apr 22, 2025About 20 years ago, I attended a symposium at Howard University in Washington, D.C. called, “I Remember U.” The purpose was for scholars to videotape a large group of...
Apr 18, 2025A book that should be a part of every high school curriculum in America is Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Safe Your Life by Wynton Marsalis. Marsalis is...
Apr 3, 2025It’s understandable why Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story, was ignored by feminists, even though the film was screened in March, which is Women’s History...
Mar 25, 2025In the spring of 1985, I walked into my father’s office on the seventh floor of National Geographic and found myself face-to-face with what, arguably, would become...
Mar 20, 2025I recently paid a visit to a nearby grocery store. A year ago, I helped build it. I was returning after a break of a few months. It’s time to pick up some shifts for the spring...
Mar 17, 2025I wasn’t sure how to write about Colin Vallon. The brilliant Swiss jazz pianist is one of my favorite musicians, and his new album Samares is ravishing. I wanted to...
Jan 28, 2025All day is a long time. That’s both an observation and the name of a novel by David Sanchez. The book’s protagonist is a man named David who gets addicted to...