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The 1980s marked the return of a lot of things. They were called “the greed decade,” which really meant that materialism was... Read More

I’m not sure how I got here, into these pages. Lately I’ve found myself in a lot of unfamiliar places: in conversation with... Read More

Jim Dandy might be the racehorse most famous for losing. The story isn’t heartwarming enough for a folksy biopic or a Laura Hillenbrand... Read More

 However much we steel ourselves against it, the arrogant and dismissive attitude of 19th-century men toward their female contemporaries... Read More

Among the dozens of stories Mary Gaitskill has published since her 1988 debut Bad Behavior, only one — “Secretary,” a... Read More

Leslie Bibb stops herself midway through a long and beautiful rumination about season 3 of The White Lotus to exclaim, “I’m like... Read More

To slop or not to slop. It was one of those days on the internet. Last week, after the introduction of Open AI’s 4o model enabled... Read More

It wouldn’t be hard to make the case that Olivia Dunne (you probably know her as Livvy) and Paul Skenes are the archetypal Gen Z power... Read More

Mike White has spent the bulk of his career in Hollywood under the radar, helming underseen critical darlings like HBO’s Enlightened... Read More

In my neighborhood just outside of Washington, D.C., most Tesla owners I come across now have a bumper sticker with the words “I bought... Read More

For anyone who grew up watching movies in the 1980s, Val Kilmer, who died Tuesday, was something of an anomaly among the young Hollywood... Read More

In this episode of The Miller Report: Real Clear Journalism, we examine a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing led this week by... Read More

Of all the characters in Olivia Manning’s Balkan Trilogy, her three-volume chronicle of the early moments of the Second World War,... Read More

It’s understandable why Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story, was ignored by feminists, even though the film was screened in... Read More

In Open Socrates, the philosopher Agnes Callard asks what it means to live an ethical, fulfilling life and decides, more or less, that... Read More

From Subscriber EK: Since you like to tackle subjects that the mainstream is too scared to discuss... Here's an obvious one: the quality of... Read More

A century ago, Claude McKay published Home to Harlem, a novel narrating Black working-class experiences in the eponymous Black... Read More

Did you know that boys are 10 times more likely to be referred for an autism diagnosis than girls? Or that boys who are referred for an... Read More

To Generation Z, there may be few things worse than traditional sexual mores. Gallup reported last year that “more than one... Read More

Hypochondria became a mainstay character in my life during my few weeks of home rest following a sports injury. Fear of complications or the... Read More

Big city downtowns have taken a beating in the last five years. The great 20–25-year bull run of urban center growth had already been... Read More

Substack is revolutionizing newsletters by breathing new life into a familiar yet tired formula, similar to how podcasts transformed radio.... Read More

Watching David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross, you could be forgiven for missing the three-word motto that’s become synonymous with... Read More

Titus Welliver believes in fate. Several years ago, when it was decided that internationally known author and novelist Michael... Read More

The abrupt withdrawal last year of President Joe Biden as the Democratic presidential nominee, followed rapidly by his replacement with Vice... Read More

Is Christianity an exclusively Western faith? In his most famous novel Silence, published in 1966 and adapted by Martin Scorsese in 2016,... Read More

A generation fed on a daily diet of apocalyptic gruel is bound to overindulge in hyperbolic discourse. But obsessing about intractable... Read More