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Almost every mainstream media figure had the same take on this week’s CBS News staff revolt against the new management named to run 60... Read More

Jason Scharf, 44, isn’t your typical 21st-century parent. In an age of iPad babies, he’s “dropped the hammer” on... Read More

“Have you seen the indoor pool?” Matt Starr asks. The founder of Dream Baby Press, Starr made a name for himself via Perverted... Read More

My wife makes fun of how easily I cry. She’s more stoic than I could ever be and thinks it’s especially funny how... Read More

The most audacious media spectacle in recent memory was hatched on the floor of Madison Square Garden, less than two weeks after the 2024... Read More

DEFINING TECH WORKERS in sociopolitical terms can be tricky. Robert Dorschel devotes the first half of his compendious study The Social Codes... Read More

Military life has long served as reliable fodder for American literature, which should come as no surprise: something about stories of men... Read More

Whenever someone like Candace Owens or Nick Fuentes posts “ragebait,” it’s not difficult to predict how my friends will... Read More

It’s often observed that horror films are a good barometer of pressing cultural anxieties. If so, the weather doesn’t look very... Read More

Nearly a century ago in a nondescript facility in the Telegraph Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, an engineer with the unlikely name of... Read More

"America needs more jobs, and it needs them now.”  Read More

“Ever look around and wonder if we deserve all this?” a woman asks, standing by their sprawling mansion’s swimming pool... Read More

Harold Bloom wrote and edited so many books that it’s hard to imagine how he found the time between them to write letters. Yet write... Read More

“When he has lost all hope, all object in life, man often becomes a monster in his misery,” wrote Dostoyevsky in The House of the... Read More

Given J.R.R. Tolkien’s self-evident greatness (and the millions of copies his novels have sold), it is perhaps little surprise that... Read More

Love, the pop star at the center of Candice Wuehle’s second novel, Ultranatural, feels familiar, like the idol we’ve all known... Read More

Ann Patchett’s new novel, Whistler, is that loveliest of summer gifts, a story of reconciliation, of old affections renewed, of a... Read More

I have not lived for a very long time, but I have already made a handful of decisions which I deeply regret, among them my decision to write... Read More

Have you ever been alone in a corporate office building late at night, fluorescent lights buzzing, AC humming? How about a mall right as it... Read More

When the historian Stephanie Coontz published The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap in 1992, it landed like a... Read More

During President Joe Biden’s term in office, the United States witnessed the largest surge in immigration in the nation’s... Read More

Unity is rare in a city as large and diverse as New York. We don’t greet each other on the street or subway, we probably disagree about... Read More

Wee Connecticut, my birthplace and where I lived until my 30s, has not one or two or three but four nicknames. The Land of Steady Habits and... Read More

Chuck Klosterman achieved cult star status in the early aughts by virtue of his pop-philosophical polemics on mainstream American culture.... Read More

It’s hard being a franchise these days. Gone are the pre-COVID monolithic blockbusters that compel your coworkers to type... Read More

I. I Hate This Story I mean, I really, really hate this story. I hate it because it’s stupid, first and foremost. Any time I’m... Read More

Within a half a mile in Philadelphia there are nearly ninety paintings of Cézanne, a tenth of his total output—the greatest... Read More

Caro Claire Burke’s Yesteryear hit all the benchmarks that a New York Times bestseller should: a propulsive premise (with a culture war... Read More

In 1989, as a divorced man living alone, I was looking for a house in the Hollywood Hills, nothing too elaborate (I couldn’t afford it... Read More

I began growing kumquat trees after my German hairdresser—who fixes BMWs and fills his salon with large, flapping plants—pulled a... Read More

For the last few weeks, I’ve been reading a journal called The Drift, which is a young (less than five years old) socialist periodical... Read More

A new study of federal court filings suggests that artificial intelligence may be transforming one of the oldest — and most expensive... Read More

On this week’s episode of the RealClearInvestigations Podcast, RCI Editor J. Peder Zane and RCI Senior Reporter James Varney speak with... Read More

When I speak to Colin Ross, a psychiatrist and researcher based in the US, I tell him that I have such vivid and immersive daydreams that I... Read More