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I’ve been visiting the front page of Pornhub since I was fifteen or sixteen. Aside from a few search adventures in which I went looking... Read More

For the last few years, experts have been fighting a battle over the impact of social media on young Americans. On one side of this battle,... Read More

Frank Meyer’s effort to hold freedom and order together reminds us that the future of self-government depends not just on power, but on... Read More

I first used this title, “Can It Be True?,” for my previous post, written in a partly panicky, partly skeptical response... Read More

Whether one prefers a Bible study, a soup kitchen, or a motorcycle club, a well-developed civil society institution fulfills two needs for... Read More

The University of Chicago is in crisis. Under extraordinary financial strain, it has diminished its faculty-student ratio and hired hundreds... Read More

On the Fourth of July, a friend interrupted my doomscrolling to send me a copy of Anne Lamott’s Washington Post column “Does... Read More

Gather round the campfire, children, and let me tell you a scary story about the annual ritual humiliation known as the Presidential Fitness... Read More

Every podcaster agrees that getting on top of the charts is good: for discovery, for brand partnerships, for bragging rights. But most are in... Read More

The astronomer Carl Sagan once asked the recreational mathematician Martin Gardner if he believed in God only so he would be happy. “My... Read More

If there’s any single description that might most sum up the social posture of Columbia University over my eleven-year tenure as an... Read More

Regardless of what you may have heard in movies and songs, the kids are not all right. That is the painful reality across America as families... Read More

I was heartened to see my former employer, Duke University Health System, quietly reverse its commitment to woke racism this year. I had... Read More

Digital media is usually looked down upon by communitarians and those who lament America’s decline in social capital. I tend to agree,... Read More

Weapons is not a very scary horror film. It is, however, a fascinating movie about the suburbs and the way the architecture of family... Read More

Newtonian physics is often represented by the action of pool cues on billiard balls, a relatively easy case. The cue, a powerful tool,... Read More

The characters in Catherine Lacey’s fiction are always running away from themselves. In her first novel, Nobody Is Ever Missing, we... Read More

There’s a handful of things that absolutely everybody has an opinion on, and few are more contentious than what does or doesn’t... Read More

The best national security approach for America is robust capitalism and all the energy, creativity, and prosperity that it produces. Read More

Weapons is writer-director Zach Cregger’s follow-up to his breakout success Barbarian (2022), and it confirms his gifts... Read More

The people who are willing to admit Roman Polanski’s greatness as a filmmaker invariably point to his earlier films — ... Read More

This weekend on August 15th, my first movie as a writer-director — Americana — lands in theaters. It’s a crazy... Read More

Weapons, Zach Cregger’s sophomore picture after the acclaimed Barbarian, was a conspicuous success story in its opening weekend:... Read More

Human nature has been critical in the development of Western political philosophy, and hence of politics. Socrates in... Read More

A piercing sound awakens you: the alarm on your phone. Through squinted eyes you peer in its direction and discern a blinking 7:00 AM. This... Read More

Molecular biologist Mike Rossner, who has committed his life to following the science, now finds himself playing an unexpected if urgent role... Read More

F1: The Movie is easily one of the biggest dark horse success movies of 2025. In a summer movie season full of dinosaurs (Jurassic... Read More

American Greatness has published an article by Stephen Soukup entitled “Thanks, Obama.”  In the article, Mr. Soukup... Read More

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... Read More