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Today is a day I’ve dreaded for over a decade. At around 6:20 a.m., we’ll get my oldest son Judson up, give him a bath, put his... Read More

Americans occasionally look at high school history and civics tests from previous centuries with amusement mixed with shame. The contrast... Read More

Bob Spitz has compiled a press-cuttings history of the Rolling Stones. Like much of their music, it is hacked together from other people's... Read More

Where do songs come from? And where do they go?  The first is a question of inspiration, the second one of posterity. Consider the... Read More

As a tween, I’d often fantasized that I’d grow into The Devil Wears Prada’s Andy Sachs. I dreamed of working at a glossy... Read More

Last year, while at a literary magazine party at a big Greek restaurant in New York City’s Financial District, I saw Alex Karpovsky... Read More

Women have done painful and extreme things in the name of beauty and cultural expectations for centuries—foot binding in China, neck... Read More

“The project of providing a rational vindication of morality had decisively failed,” wrote Alasdair MacIntyre in After Virtue... Read More

A decade ago, the only dress that mattered was a lace-trimmed bandage number with a Mother of the Bride-appropriate matching shrug that was... Read More

The 82-year-old actor and writer Wallace Shawn is spending a lot of time in Dimes Square. He loves it. On a recent Friday afternoon, he... Read More

A new epoch of sports — and, we are told, of human achievement — is upon us. The Enhanced Games, an athletic competition that... Read More

When Christopher Nolan’s new The Odyssey film was announced, many people were understandably excited. Although composed nearly three... Read More

After nearly eleven years and 1,801 episodes, Stephen Colbert has left the desk of The Late Show. It wasn’t entirely his choice, of... Read More

Artificial intelligence might be the only thing that Americans hate and/or fear as much as one another. Fun fact: According to a recent... Read More

There are a lot of reasons to be excited about Ralph Lauren’s America 250 collaboration with the United States Postal Service. First... Read More

A 31-year-old woman, blond and beautiful and fantastically rich, announces she is pregnant, two years into her marriage. There’s... Read More

In the introduction to theology course I teach for college freshmen, one of the assigned readings is the third-century account of the... Read More

A radar tower stands alone in northeast Oklahoma City, surrounded by a green field. It is one hundred feet tall and topped with a smooth,... Read More

I’ve passed enough “As Seen on TikTok” tables at otherwise cozily untrendy bookstores that I can no longer picture a... Read More

In his commendatory poem in the first folio edition of Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies (1623), Ben Jonson addresses... Read More

‘The Bronx is up and the Battery’s down,” sang three sailors in On the Town, as tuneful as a musical can be. There’s... Read More

In 1964, the Supreme Court of the United States revolutionized our country’s understanding of the First Amendment. More specifically,... Read More

Bob Dylan turns 85 on Sunday. He plans to spend the summer the way he has spent almost every summer since 1988, performing to large crowds... Read More

Days out from L.A.’s mayoral primary, the reality TV villain turned online crystal merchant Spencer Pratt is one of the frontrunning... Read More

A few days ago, Milly Alcock flew from Kyoto to Los Angeles after finishing production on a new movie. Then, after a fitting, she traveled to... Read More

A few years ago, the consensus among guidance counselors, think tanks, and anxious parents was clear: Learn to code. Coding was the hedge... Read More

“I want you to close your eyes,” said Jess, a perfumer from Napa Valley. “I want you to imagine: You’re sitting in a... Read More

Just within the last year, Paul Kingsnorth published Against The Machine about the source of our increasing uneasiness at being herded into... Read More

I don’t know that I’ll watch Stephen Colbert’s final episode of The Late Show tonight, which will also be the final episode... Read More

When a pastor I know told me about “an issue ruining marriages” in his congregation, I assumed he was going to describe a spate... Read More

There’s a quote I think about a lot, by the writer Donald Barthelme. “What must whacky mode do,” he said, to a student,... Read More

Miami presents a challenge for conservative assumptions about politics and culture. No American city is more emblematic of recent GOP gains... Read More

In The Apology of Socrates, one of the cornerstones of basically every aspect of Western culture, Plato recounts the speech that Socrates... Read More

The question has become inescapable: What happens to the American worker when AI stops augmenting and starts replacing? To answer it well... Read More

Of the many philosophical questions the age of artificial intelligence has foisted onto our attention, perhaps none is more urgent for... Read More