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BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA WAS PUBLISHED in 1897, less than a year after Auguste and Louis Lumière debuted the cinematograph, a... Read More

Imagine that you’ve woken up one morning as a protein-“maxxing” influencer—an online personality focused on... Read More

Written in Boeotia around 700 B.C., Works and Days is a didactic poem composed by Hesiod and addressed to his idle brother, Perses,... Read More

It was a good time to be a Millennial girlboss in 2018. #MeToo was tearing through institutions and canceling pervs. Beyoncé became... Read More

On a recent episode of Ezra Klein’s podcast, he reflects on what he thinks he got wrong during the period of peak wokeness in the late... Read More

ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON AT WRIGLEY FIELD, a 23-year-old named Joshua Báez stepped to the plate for the St. Louis Cardinals for the first... Read More

Men and women are drifting apart. Marriage rates are declining. People are having fewer children. This is dangerous for society. That’s... Read More

There are several reasons why conservatives lag in contributing to the arts. For one thing, they are blacklisted. Movie studios and... Read More

I recently read Kitten by Stacey Yu. I picked up the book because Petya Grady had raved about it, and I was intrigued by the premise:... Read More

Every year there’s hand-wringing about the state of the music industry, but lately the concerns can feel more valid than usual.... Read More

America may have been the home of that great innovator Henry Ford, but the inventor of the gas-powered automobile was Carl Benz, a German,... Read More

It is usually taken as a given, for better or worse, that the Grand Old Men of English letters tend to move, if not necessarily to the right,... Read More

The hardest part of a fight is not the actual fight. By the time the first bell goes off you’re being hurtled forward by momentum,... 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

The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom, by Don Miguel Ruiz, is a self-help book that was a true publishing phenomenon:... Read More

Amazon is buying massive quantities of books, scanning them for AI training data, and destroying them in the process.  A 404 Media... Read More

The British-Czech philosopher Ernest Gellner used to tell an anecdote about visiting Poland during the last years of communist rule. When he... Read More

Mario Vargas Llosa was 10 years old when his mother revealed to him, on a walk along the riverside promenade of the Peruvian city of Piura in... Read More

A pathography is a particular kind of biography. Composed by an angry scold, it’s apt to be short on facts and detail. In place of... Read More

I’ve been working recently on a long essay about, basically, why all the things I like in the world seem to be losing out and the... Read More

It’ll probably never happen to you. Maybe I should pretend it will: try to grab you by the self-interest and say, look, consider that... Read More

In the 2013 mumblecore romcom Drinking Buddies, Chris (Ron Livingston) gives his girlfriend, Kate (Olivia Wilde), a gift. It is a copy of... Read More

I like Cassandras and angry outsider losers. I feel I can trust them. I know they are not working one over on me; or if they are maneuvering,... Read More

Stories are predicated on journeys of all kinds, and sometimes, destinations. For the displaced, however, a homecoming is a perpetual state... Read More

Americans love their killers. Still, Luigi Mangione, who shot UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson dead in December 2024, may be the most... Read More

To great public shame and personal consternation, I’ve decided to punt The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy back to the TBR for a... Read More

America’s 30th president, Calvin Coolidge, was famously so taciturn that he earned the nickname “Silent Cal.” Yet this... Read More

“This is the book that broke the spell of French progressivism,” says Nathan Pinkoski in his foreword to Éric... Read More

An hour into Whit Stillman’s 1994 film, Barcelona, the protagonist, Ted Boynton (Taylor Nichols), considers using “maneuver... Read More

Chang-rae Lee is one of our great writers of dislocation and doubt. In novels like Native Speaker and The Surrendered, Lee deployed fairly... Read More

The impulse to separate the literary critic from the mere consumer, the serious reader from the lightweight, is abiding. Several means of... Read More

In 12th-century Italy, physicians at a medical school in Salerno described the symptoms of plethora, or an excess of blood in the balance of... Read More