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We don’t get to choose our fans.  Naomi Kanakia, for example, probably doesn’t want me — a religious-minded,... Read More

From the beginning, Belle Burden’s memoir, Strangers, was the stuff that middle-aged female nightmares are made of. A high-flying woman... Read More

In 2023, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen released a document called “The Techno-Optimist Manifesto,” in which he proclaimed... Read More

What is a nation? This is not a question for polite company. It sounds like the title of a German pamphlet from around 1935. When... Read More

Enough of the American Revolution, at least for a week. Chicago’s on my mind. Forget about Warhol, Lichtenstein, Richter, and Basquiat,... Read More

Dana White marches in lockstep with President Donald Trump into a downtown Miami arena as the Kid Rock song “American Bad Ass”... Read More

On a june day in 2018, I watched a construction loader pour thousands of books into a big green dumpster. It had appeared overnight, parked... Read More

Good afternoon, everyone. Free letter today. At the end of April, I asked my readers to respond to three brief questions about novels meant... Read More

Jacobin readers hardly need to be told that the new Boots Riley movie I Love Boosters is a must-see. It’s been eight years since the... Read More

Let the screaming and crying commence. With recent polling now in rough alignment with the betting markets, it looks like former reality... Read More

The writer, poet, curator, and professor Lucy Ives isn’t shy about her influences. In her 2022 novel, Life is Everywhere, she included... Read More

My father dropped out of Harvard during the Cold War. He had planned to sail around the world in search of himself. Instead, he joined the... Read More

Ryan Burge is a political scientist and ordained Baptist minister. Recently, he has also emerged as something of an antiprophet of... Read More

Last month, when I was in the Washington, DC, area for a week, there were two places I knew I wanted to make the time to see: the Washington... Read More

One day in the 1960s, in a forest in Tanzania, a 26-year-old British ethologist watched a chimpanzee she had nicknamed “David... Read More

A man is walking down a crowded street at night, when a machine unexpectedly turns to greet him. Inside a glowing store window is an Apple... Read More

The Amazon rainforest, according to a 2021 study, is losing its capacity as a carbon sink and now emits more than it absorbs. In the tropics,... Read More

Almost a decade has passed since Michael Phelps set the world alight on the Olympic stage at Rio 2016, when he took home the most medals of... Read More

One of the year’s bestselling books contains a pivotal sex scene in which a time-traveling tradwife finds her impotent husband... Read More

It’s none of your business why, but I’ve been planning a party. The idea was to get some caterers in to cook something over live... Read More

On May 13, a prestigious literary organization — Commonwealth Foundation — announced the regional winners of the 2026... Read More

Obsession is a nifty little horror movie. Genuinely disturbing, and exhausting, it seems destined to become a midnight movie classic, if we... Read More

On June 14, Free Speech Advocate Greg Lukianoff, President of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) and co-author of The... Read More

Curry Barker, a 26-year-old YouTuber-turned-filmmaker, made his horror film “Obsession” in just 20 days on a mere $750,000 budget. Read More

In September of last year, Fable CEO and A.I. acolyte, Edward Saatchi, appeared on CNBC to peddle a new product called Showrunner, an app... Read More

“Should I use AI?” is a question that probably every writer on Earth has asked themselves in the last couple of years. ROL has... Read More

In America, the poor cling to their guns and bibles, as then-Senator Barack Obama controversially observed in 2008. Except, in the fictional... Read More

There’s a set of books that you’ve probably already heard of. These are the ones that’ve been extolled by professors and... Read More

Another memoirist has been outed as a fabulist, poor thing. This time the offending writer is Belle Burden, a well-born wife and mother whose... Read More

Michael DeForge might be the patron cartoonist of the millennial laptop class. His comics are set in dreamy abstract landscapes and populated... Read More

I could tell it was getting bad when tech guys started talking about their “stacks.” They had sleep stacks, workout stacks,... Read More

RCP's David DesRosiers discusses the defeat of Rep. Thomas Massie, tension around Israel, and the "Californiafication Crazy" elections on the... Read More

New York Times v. Sullivan (1964), once revered as a landmark First Amendment ruling, has become controversial in recent years. Leading... Read More

In late 2023 the U.S. Senate ignited in a firestorm of controversy. Freshman senator John Fetterman had begun showing up to the job—and... Read More

Today feels like the end of an era for jazz fans. Something has changed—that’s the pervasive mood right now. And things will... Read More

The coming IPO for SpaceX matters less for its gargantuan size than because it marks a dramatic change in the tech sphere. The IPO has the... Read More

While museums are among New York’s crown jewels, I revere one above all others: the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which seemingly goes on... Read More