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What were you like in the ’90s? In a viral online trend, young adults are asking their parents that question. Parents are answering... Read More

On September 14, 1787, just days before the Constitution would be voted out of the Philadelphia Convention, the First Troop Philadelphia City... Read More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida — First, there’s silence. It’s an anxious silence. Everyone on the beach has been waiting for... Read More

Upstart indie press Cash 4 Gold Books (C4G) has had a busy, buzzy entry into American letters. Founded by alt-lit stalwarts Jon Lindsey and... Read More

For a vocal minority, the memory of 2020’s “Summer of Love,” with its orgy of “Black Lives Matter”... Read More

The only time I and my fellow trombone players were noticed was during a parade. Because the trombone’s slide extends a good 3 feet... Read More

It’s known as the Easterlin Paradox. Though rising wealth at early stages in the lives of individuals and countries fosters greater... Read More

On Instagram, there’s an activist named Brian Patrick (@pano.dime) who has dedicated his account to “posting an insane thing an... Read More

We all need friends. Unchosen solitude and isolation are among the worst ailments that political animals such as human beings can face. And... Read More

Celebrated by authors from Chaucer to T.S. Eliot, April announces itself as a turning point in the year, shaking off winter’s chill as... Read More

Human tribalism can make you long for the impersonality of robot justice. Last week gave us two examples of writers apparently reliant on AI... Read More

The James Beard Foundation has announced its list of chef and restaurant finalists for the 2026 James Beard Awards. The awards represent one... Read More

Harvey C. Mansfield stands out among the preeminent political theorists of our time in part because he is so much more than an academic... Read More

Arsenio Hall built a career as a stand-up comedian in the ’70s and early ’80s before landing notable roles in Coming to America... Read More

When writers mention “writing” or “literacy” these days, they tend to do it as part of an obituary. Man’s... Read More

Penny Lane looks like a fertility goddess reincarnated as a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model. But she hasn’t always looked so amazing.... Read More

Whenever a new technology drops, humans can tend to panic. In Plato’s Phaedrus (written in the fourth century BCE), Socrates... Read More

As Donald Trump goes after Harvard, one of the university’s most famous alums is back in the limelight with a new... Read More

Shoshana Walter’s Rehab: An American Scandal opens with the search for a body. But there are no homicide detectives on the scene.... Read More

When Allen C. Guelzo and James Hankins began writing The Golden Thread, their two-volume History of the Western Tradition, they... Read More

Around the corner from where I’m writing this in southern Stockholm, clean center at the dark heart of suburbia’s placid,... Read More

Over the years I’ve reviewed FDR’s house and presidential center, Coolidge’s museum and site, Andrew Jackson’s... Read More

The left loves to revise history—so does the right—and no author in recent times has been “revised” more than poor... Read More

America’s first all-you-can-eat buffet was never intended to sate appetites, but to reignite waning ones. Around the middle of the 20th... Read More

Although it wasn’t Sunday, my father didn’t go to work. I liked the day because we could spend it together and we would have a... Read More

For as long as I can remember, I’ve been mildly obsessed with space. It really took off when, around the age of seven, my parents... Read More

“It’s a complex business, going home,” says Colm Tóibín, the bard of the Irish diaspora, noted for eleven... Read More

I tell the taxi driver to floor it, the rare-book appraiser’s voice still burning in my ears. “There’s a copy in... Read More

Ken Griffin is pointing an outstretched arm toward his field of dreams. On this Wednesday afternoon in early February, the CEO of... Read More

There’s a particular genre of American art that shines a slatted light across the loneliest places in this ever-vast country, spaces in... Read More

Catholicism, and the conservative movement more generally, is currently facing a profound and unexpected dilemma. As they succeed in... Read More

After a public apology, Ye returns to music as a hollowed-out shell of his former self. Read More

Andrew Martin is a much-beloved downtown novelist based in New York. His first novel, Early Work, was called “marvelous” by the... Read More