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The actor Natalie Portman has long seemed more like a person who wants to brand herself as smart than like a person who is actually smart... Read More

There’s a certain type of horror story that begins with a knock at the door. A stranger stands on your threshold, waiting to be asked... Read More

I spend a lot of time thinking about how to help books out: Seeing if I can include them in a list, pitching reviews and author interviews,... Read More

I have long felt that Barack Obama’s highest aspiration was always to become an adored celebrity, perhaps even an actor; he settled for... Read More

Americans didn’t use to have to wonder about which thinkers to turn to. We had institutions that selected, vetted, appointed, and... Read More

IF THE PURPOSE of art is to achieve some semblance of catharsis, then critics be damned, the novel is alive and well. It’s hard to keep... Read More

If you’ve ever walked through a bookstore with an author by your side, you may have noticed something peculiar: writers don’t... Read More

You may have heard of Angel Studios, the producer and distributor of Young Washington, a pretty dunderheaded biopic about George Washington... Read More

A new movie about the early years of America’s first national hero and president seemed appropriate to debut on the 250th anniversary... Read More

Ain’t nobody doing it like Christopher Nolan. The British-born, Chicago-raised director is one of the most acclaimed filmmakers of our... Read More

It isn’t exactly news that Homer’s “Odyssey” is a very, very good poem. But seeing Christopher Nolan’s screen... Read More

If you ask Palantir’s Eliano Younes what his job title is, as a routine matter of course, as a tech reporter who is writing a story... Read More

In 2011, Everlane sold its first product: a plain crewneck T-shirt for $15, alongside an itemized account of what it cost to make. No apparel... Read More

For a brief moment in January 2025, Mikey Shulman was the most hated man in music. The cofounder and CEO of Suno, a generative artificial... Read More

What a year 2026 is turning out to be for books! Last week we ran our Favorite Books of 2026 (So Far) list, and now that we’ve looked... Read More

Byung-Chul Han is one of Europe’s most widely read philosophers. His audience in the United States has grown considerably over the last... Read More

Sigrid Nunez is a baby boomer who seems younger, because idiomatic speech always sounds young. She’s been publishing fiction between... Read More

How sexy is a pop star really allowed to be? Not very, if recent controversies about the male gaze are anything to go by. Serving cunt must... Read More

The Domestic Policy Council has just published its audit of the woke poison at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History:... Read More

I regularly read on the subway. Physical books. Increasingly, these books are leatherbound tomes. I’m at high risk of someone sneaking... Read More

CHRISTOPHER NOLAN HAS ONLY ONE official trilogy under his belt. His Dark Knight Trilogy involves a masked man waging war on crime bosses,... Read More

Dust to dust. Silicon Valley’s Congressman Ro Khanna, who years ago won his place in Washington with a pro-business, generally moderate... Read More

Even if most of what you know about the World Cup is that it’s currently happening, you might also know that Lionel Messi is involved.... Read More

On the morning of the summer solstice last month, Karol G tells me she’s been learning to untame herself. “When people say a... Read More

A recent essay in The Atlantic tells us what most of us have already surmised: reading is dead, and it’s not coming back. In “The... Read More

I was raised to the rhythm of 1190 KEX AM. I napped to Yusuf/Cat Stevens, sang Fleetwood Mac with my mom, and got my first lessons in amour... Read More

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is this summer’s hot new movie. Nolan’s epic has gained both praise and criticism, the... Read More

Heatwaves have pushed temperatures to record highs across both Europe and the United States. Yet the human toll between these two locales was... Read More

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

Here are some questions that I consider self-evidently compelling about the modern world: Why is the news media so interested in telling... Read More

Speaking as someone who has never played football and almost never watches it, here are 10,000 words explaining exactly where England went... Read More