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Review: Beyond Steel: Pittsburgh and the Economics of Transformation by Christopher P. Briem (The Kent State University Press,... Read More

It’s Josh D’Amaro’s Disney now, or it will be soon, anyway. The freshly named CEO undoubtedly knows his transition to power... Read More

“You’re seriously asking for my view on The English Patient?!” the late author David Foster Wallace squirms, midway through... Read More

Like many others, I watched and enjoyed the Netflix documentary Miracle: The Boys of ’80 over the weekend, a film about the life and... Read More

In the mid-1990s, when I was in middle school and the film critic A.S. Hamrah was, I presume, about a decade out of college, ABC and FOX ran... Read More

One of the more interesting questions about Jewish culture after October 7 is: What will the future of American Jewish fiction look like? It... Read More

Persecuted Christians. Youth sports. Foster-care programs. Cancer prevention. Military and veteran support. Giving juveniles a second... Read More

Over the past two decades, A.S. Hamrah has carved out a peculiar niche for himself in the increasingly bowdlerized world of American film... Read More

Walk the rows of the farmers market in a small, nondescript Texas town about an hour away from Austin, and you might stumble across something... Read More

“I’m glad that I haven’t had the success that people had hoped for me until now,” Madison Beer candidly admits in the... Read More

In the ’80s, the ultimate healthy Boomer breakfast was a bran muffin. There were also various cereals like Grape-Nuts and Raisin Bran.... Read More

Recently, a female skier in China was rescued from a mountaintop after being seriously injured in an attack by a snow leopard. But... Read More

This week marks the 30th anniversary of Infinite Jest, the 1996 Clue-murder-weapon-heavy masterwork that made author David... Read More

When I started smoking I was sixteen, and my life was very complicated. Large portions of each day were spent trying to disguise the fact... Read More

Amid winter’s deep chill we all yearn for an engrossing book and a fireside chair—or at least a quilt or electric blanket.... Read More

It’s perhaps cliché to point out how the virtual world has transformed our conception of connection. But how that online... Read More

Attention dilemmas focus on the dramatic loss of the ability to concentrate. A post-literate society does not erase literacy; it... Read More

Under a certain strain of authoritarianism, a regime-approved vanity movie wouldn’t even need to premiere in cinemas. Cars... Read More

1. The sound of the South is the distant whine of leaf blowers on a blue afternoon. 2. In the Laws, Plato wrote: “with regard to... Read More

They say you should never meet your heroes, a rule that is not always correct. But I did have a salutary session some years ago when a friend... Read More

The Republican leader of Pennsylvania's state Senate saluted his allies in labor earlier this month after their successful, years-long effort... Read More

America’s power to wage war hangs more on the sex life of the greater sage-grouse than you might guess. You wouldn’t want to... Read More

The Metropolitan Opera has been making headlines lately — for all the wrong reasons. It’s not that the... Read More

Like the American two-party political system, American education today has two educational models. On one side is the Progressive style of... Read More

For decades, Los Angeles business and political figures have focused their attention on creating a sleek, vibrant downtown. The common... Read More

There’s an old joke about two men running from a bear. The first says to the second “do you really think you can outrun a... Read More