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A Bluesky thread — perish the thought! — crossed my newsfeeding trough yesterday morning between sets of Larsen presses and Kroc... Read More

The odds of winning the 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize—a prestigious literary award recognizing unpublished short fiction from... Read More

In the strange case of Gad Saad, we have a public intellectual and cultural firebrand whose most intelligent haters tend to half-agree with... Read More

“There is a real mania in this city for horn and trumpet playing,” remarked the New Orleans Daily Picayune in 1838. “You... Read More

Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s “The Odyssey,” out on July 17, is the most hotly awaited sword-and-sandal... Read More

David Bowie haunts the periphery of my childhood. A memory persists, circa 1983, of an elegantly turned-out man of indeterminate age, his... Read More

Pocket symphony: a phrase popularized by an ad-man (Derek Taylor)—a press-man, anyway; journalist, publisher, and... Read More

For decades, “Wall Street” was America’s all-purpose byword for capitalist villainy. “Big tech” is now running... Read More

There have been few writers as prolifically désengagé as Georges Simenon, the author of nearly two hundred absorbing, intensely... Read More

I finally got around to reading Michel Houellebecq’s The Elementary Particles. I’d already read Submission and Whatever, which... Read More

Leisa Mari Bekkers lives in New South Wales, where she is raising two teenagers she describes as her life’s work. Aged 14 and 19,... Read More

“The duty of every revolutionary is to make the revolution.” Every New Leftist in the late 1960s was familiar with that axiom,... Read More

Even great economists can make poor or incomplete arguments. George Stigler, a titan of the Chicago school alongside luminaries like Milton... Read More

July 1959: Paul Celan and his family are vacationing in the Swiss Alps. They’re in Sils Maria, where the poet’s beloved Nietzsche... Read More

The Guardian has released a list of the “100 best novels published in English” (which makes room for translated literature such... Read More

Life can feel overwhelming when you’re a teenager. Your physique is changing dramatically while at the same time your emotions are... Read More

Was the liberalism that informed America’s founding rationalistic, individualistic, and godless? Many intellectuals and commentators... Read More

Last week, a Twitter user called SHL0MS posted the image above with the heading, “i just generated an image in the style of a Monet... Read More

“I’m pregnant. Will that be OK?”  Léa Seydoux wasn’t sure if the timing was right at all.... Read More

His name was Jacques Ellul, and he predicted the future. Or to be more precise, the present. In 1954, Ellul, a French philosopher,... Read More

The literary agent is a mysterious and camera-shy creature, rustling busily in the literary undergrowth, her tracks visible only to those... Read More

Cities love their rivers. From Shakespeare’s Tiber “chafing with her shores” to Walt Whitman’s ode to the East... Read More

Recently, in a small bookshop in Paris (it is, in fact, called La Petite Librairie), I found my way to what was a shockingly wide selection... Read More

The NYU Executive Committee of the Student Government Assembly expressed “profound disappointment” that their graduation speaker... Read More

It’s perhaps not surprising that American poetry’s A-listers have come, of late, to espouse sincerity as both writing practice... Read More

Allie Rowbottom’s second novel, Lovers XXX, begins with a disappearance. Or, better yet, a pair of them. First, there is Jude,... Read More

In 1981, a young Steve Jobs—bearded, bespectacled, brown corduroy blazer over an open-collared shirt—sat in front of an Apple II... Read More

The infamous and much-maligned “Why Do Rich People Love Quiet?” article — published in The Atlantic in 2022 and written by... Read More

THE FIRST PAGE attends to “murky effects.” A man and woman trudge along Southwark Bridge under “a dark yellow... Read More

When was the last time you saw a teenage boy with a book in his hand? A phone, alas, probably all the time. But a book? Unless a teacher... Read More

In her 2001 memoir, A Life’s Work, Rachel Cusk writes that “in motherhood, a woman exchanges her public significance for a range... Read More

In “Jurassic Park,” there’s a scene that has outlived the spectacle of dinosaurs themselves. And it’s often... Read More

RCP's David DesRosiers discusses the ideas and institutions that make America exceptional on "Get Real" as we celebrate the Bradley Prize. 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

Many families I know are cutting summer road trips due to the highest gas prices many of us have ever seen. That’s especially sad given... Read More