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Heterosexuality has been deemed dangerous for as long as I can remember. In the 1990s, before I was born, an influential faction of feminists... Read More

Beware the biographer: the scuttler in the archives, the interviewer of relatives, the Monday morning quarterback, the renderer of... Read More

Last week, comedian and political commentator Jon Stewart published an interview with Nobel Prize-winning economist Richard Thaler... Read More

I’ve been asked to write about my flip phone. I’ve been asked to make this funny, but there’s nothing really funny about my... Read More

You will probably watch the Super Bowl on Sunday. Maybe you’re a casual fan. Maybe you’re a football nut who wants to see how New... Read More

After the chaotic early 2020s, when the NFL led the way by leaning into woke nonsense like kneeling for the national anthem or... Read More

On Sunday night, millions of people across the United States and throughout Latin America tuned in to watch the National Football... Read More

“We all love Thomas Paine. We just wish we liked him.” — Jonathan Turley Jonathan Turley’s new... Read More

During my first year of college, in February 2018, when I’d convinced myself that biology was my vocation and that poetry exceeded my... Read More

Americans are facing a “crisis of connection,” according to a 2025 survey from the American Psychological Association. The... Read More

In his new book, “Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution,” Professor Turley explores the... Read More

There’s something very religious about nihilism. For proof, look to the new capital of American nihilism, Minneapolis. A callousness... Read More

Is there any more unhelpful term in popular use today than “attention”? Experts have been telling us for some time that we live... Read More

Brooklyn resident Brandon Holley met Babacar*, an illegal migrant in his early twenties, in the parking lot of a Lowe’s hardware store... Read More

“It was all a lie,” Marjorie Taylor Greene recently said about MAGA, capping off an unexpected career turn in which she parted... Read More

Normally, a piece like this would begin with a recent example of the subject at hand, which in this case is the Blue Tent that haunts the... Read More

Every week this NFL season, we’ve broken down the highs and lows—and everything in between—from the most recent slate of... Read More

“Melania” is a study in what Ernest Hemingway called “grace under pressure.” Hemingway knew a thing or two about the... Read More

In the first half of the 20th century, there were few American poets more popular than Robinson Jeffers. The Californian wasn’t known... Read More

John Updike wrote and published constantly for 40 years. More than 70 titles. Thousands of articles. Mostly for The New Yorker. He... Read More

They call it the biggest stage in music. The Super Bowl halftime show is one of the precious few American events that we have left—save... Read More

This is a winding story but I am going to try telling it straight. I decided to drive to the village of Faial da Terra to the trailhead at... Read More

Taxi Driver’s first destination was a single movie screen on the east side of Manhattan. The harrowing Martin Scorsese drama opened in... Read More

Three weeks ago, my beloved San Francisco 49ers were unceremoniously dispatched from the NFL playoffs by the Seattle Seahawks, who are vying... Read More

In January, federal authorities charged more than two dozen individuals in a sweeping college basketball betting scheme, including over a... Read More

Via Kite & Key Media -- In 1960, Carl Jung told an interviewer there were five pillars of a happy life. And it turns out that... Read More

The reviews of Melania (Amazon MGM Studios), still playing at bat caves across the country, constituted a massacre. The blue... Read More

A study published last month in Nature analyzed 41 million research papers across the natural sciences and found... Read More

It is a curious thing when an artist, thinker, or writer gains influence outside the audience he intends or is comfortable with. When a... Read More

In the latest example of the scare tactics favored by climate change alarmists, it was announced last month that 2025 “was the... Read More