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Last things first: Eve Babitz is a major minor L.A. writer who died five years ago at age 78. She spent nearly a quarter-century as a... Read More

Just a couple weeks ago, Secretary of State Marco Rubio made conservatives cheer when he delivered a sharp rebuke to communism not only for... Read More

Do you want to have a good time? You know, really enjoy yourself? Click here, and tell us your desires. Maybe it’s a new outfit, or... Read More

Ben Lerner is a highly-acclaimed man of letters who’s written four novels about the daily life of a highly-acclaimed man of letters. In... Read More

You shouldn’t let things get to you. You shouldn’t be filled with doubt and ambivalence and vague shames. You should be like a... Read More

A remarkable outburst of interest in Western civilization has marked this extraordinary month. We began July with a celebration of... Read More

My mother, back in a less gentle era of parenting, had a characteristic reply to the complaints of bored children, often uttered just before... Read More

Over a thousand people were dying a day in the U.S., and our eyes were still glued to Britney. My wife was scrolling through Instagram at my... Read More

An American producer, a German director, and a French screenwriter are sitting in a screening room watching dailies for a new production of... Read More

Charles Taylor, professor emeritus of philosophy at McGill University, is well known in the field of political theory for works such as... Read More

A massive sinkhole recently opened up on Sunset Boulevard at Holloway Drive, just down the street from the heart of Hollywood itself.... Read More

There’s an interesting contrast going on this summer at the American Film Institute’s Silver Theater outside of Washington, D.C.... Read More

On a recent tour of the U.S. Capitol building—my first since working there nearly 30 years ago—I was reminded of just how... Read More

Something called Eating With Experts pissed off a bunch of food writers the other week when it posted a carousel of text to Instagram... Read More

We had our first taste of pecan pie. Good lord. Do the Americans know how lucky they are to live with these everyday indulgences? Pecan pie... Read More

Christopher Nolan’s $250 million action movie version of Homer’s ancient Greek poem is an entertaining way to hide from the high... Read More

Last year, my editors gave me an assignment: “Rank the greatest superhero movies of all time.” That was it. No restrictions, no... Read More

Patrick Deneen is perhaps best known as a critic of contemporary American politics and culture. His 2018 book Why Liberalism Failed offers... Read More

So far this year, according to TrackingSharks.com, there have been 30 recorded shark attacks worldwide. Seven were fatal. Shark attack... Read More

For someone whose office has a view of a carnival, Lonny Warner is decidedly unwhimsical. The CEO of Reddy Ice, the largest producer of... Read More

The artists are at a dinner party gossiping about a dead woman. They say it was an overdose. Her mother doubts whether it was a suicide, but... Read More

Recently, I’ve come across the same — deeply depressing — idea from several different directions. The idea is that the... Read More

A clever device invented to end a war. Destruction of the sacred and violence against the innocent. Mayhem. Pillage. Atrocity. Embers and... Read More

One of the great pleasures of reading widely as a writer is building a personal canon. It can be a hell of a lot of fun to find books out... Read More

On July 16th, I walked through the Upper East Side under apocalypse-orange skies covered in smog – “Odyssean weather”,... Read More

This week, I caved to the advice of my best friend, who, in the spirit of self-help, has long recommended I get a tarot card reading from a... Read More

The mystery of social media algorithms spews videos and reels hyping dysfunction in a (seemingly) not-small segment of Black America, a locus... Read More

IN 1954, SWEDISH WRITER Birgitta Trotzig, aged 25, arrived in Paris just as the Algerian Revolution was igniting. Bored with neutral... Read More

Wednesday evening. It’s time to go to the pub! My girlfriend is unsure. Why? She’s heavily pregnant. She finds the pub... Read More

That Christopher Nolan would hit a home run with “The Odyssey” was as predictable as Odysseus’s return to Ithaca.... Read More

Taking aim at the Boomer generation is becoming a popular pastime—especially on the populist right. While members of younger... Read More

Last week, Sony—the largest video game company in the world—announced that it will no longer produce physical discs for any new... Read More

"I don't know if you're a detective or a pervert," says Sandy Williams, an innocent blonde high schooler, to Jeffrey Beaumont, her handsome... Read More

Hot peptide summer is nigh. In a two day-long marathon hearing that pitted career regulatory representatives against figures of the peptide... Read More

Every now and again, I write about sports. But I only end up showing how out-of-touch I am. Read More

The writer Jacob Bacharach has a funny running bit about how none of the defenders of Western civilization has never encountered it, which he... Read More