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Nov 27, 2025
Barry Levinson was one of the most successful directors in America around 1990, when he made Avalon, an immigrant Thanksgiving movie trying to sum up the transformation of the...
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Oct 16, 2025
The American right is in a period of intellectual tumult. Part of that reckoning includes wondering what novels are and what they are for. It is impressive that we should are even...
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Jul 15, 2025
We owe Ariel Helfer a good deal of gratitude for his latest effort, a translation of Plato’s Letters that brings to the American audience, for the first time perhaps,...
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Jul 9, 2025
The Fourth of July is all about the fireworks, and that’s true of the Star-Spangled Banner as well as of Jaws, a movie about the holiday that is credited with launching the era...
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May 21, 2025
The papacy has been remarkably often in the news in our rather anti-clerical and increasingly secular age, making history in ways noticed and unnoticed. In 2013, Pope Benedict XVI...
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Apr 8, 2025
“Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour, / England hath need of thee, she is a fen / of stagnant waters” begins a famous sonnet by William Wordsworth...
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Mar 4, 2025
Bob Dylan is, as I have previously written for Law & Liberty, America’s “definitive post-war artist.” The new James Mangold movie, A Complete...
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Jan 31, 2025
David Lynch has died at the age of 78. With his death, we have lost the most eccentric of the directors who made their name in the 1980s and 1990s, at the apex of American...
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Jan 22, 2025
On January 16, we lost David Lynch, at age 78, just shy of his January 20 birthday. That would be January 20, 1946. Lynch was a Baby Boomer. A child of ’50s America. In other...
Nov 27, 2025Barry Levinson was one of the most successful directors in America around 1990, when he made Avalon, an immigrant Thanksgiving movie trying to sum up the transformation of the...
Oct 16, 2025The American right is in a period of intellectual tumult. Part of that reckoning includes wondering what novels are and what they are for. It is impressive that we should are even...
Jul 15, 2025We owe Ariel Helfer a good deal of gratitude for his latest effort, a translation of Plato’s Letters that brings to the American audience, for the first time perhaps,...
Jul 9, 2025The Fourth of July is all about the fireworks, and that’s true of the Star-Spangled Banner as well as of Jaws, a movie about the holiday that is credited with launching the era...
May 21, 2025The papacy has been remarkably often in the news in our rather anti-clerical and increasingly secular age, making history in ways noticed and unnoticed. In 2013, Pope Benedict XVI...
Apr 8, 2025“Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour, / England hath need of thee, she is a fen / of stagnant waters” begins a famous sonnet by William Wordsworth...
Mar 4, 2025Bob Dylan is, as I have previously written for Law & Liberty, America’s “definitive post-war artist.” The new James Mangold movie, A Complete...
Jan 31, 2025David Lynch has died at the age of 78. With his death, we have lost the most eccentric of the directors who made their name in the 1980s and 1990s, at the apex of American...
Jan 22, 2025On January 16, we lost David Lynch, at age 78, just shy of his January 20 birthday. That would be January 20, 1946. Lynch was a Baby Boomer. A child of ’50s America. In other...