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Not so very long ago, getting from here to there involved the awkward origami of unfolding a large paper map in the confines of a car, or... Read More

In the summer of 1776, just a few weeks after the Thirteen Colonies had declared their independence, George Washington was in New York,... Read More

On April 17, 2026, the Parrhesia Program for Public Thought and Discourse at the University of Chicago hosted “Covering the New... Read More

IN THEIR INTRODUCTION to the new edited essay collection Reactionary Worldbuilding: From Speculative Imagination to Political Practice,... Read More

I was fifteen when I made, at least emotionally, the most difficult decision of my life: I was leaving the Jehovah’s Witnesses. I... Read More

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Convention requires me to disclose that I have known, admired, and learned from Thomas G. West for more than thirty years. I also, in 2018,... Read More

My grandmother’s courtyard in Marrakesh had a cracked blue tile near the fountain where the water always pooled. For most of my... Read More

In a coming-of-age novel about a neglected, introspective girl, a train slinks across the floor of an icy glacial lake, having careened off... Read More

The second half of the 20th century had no greater teacher of the roots of American conservatism and guardian of our nation’s values... Read More

Histories have been written about the great political conversions: Constantine to Orthodoxy for victory in battle; Henry VIII to Anglicanism... Read More

As we approach the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, celebrations of America’s history are building... Read More

He doesn’t have a cell phone or use the internet so it takes a week to get the answer but finally his publicist comes back with a... Read More

People have been debating the invention of the novel forever. For some, the first novel was the 11th Century Japanese Tale of Genji by... Read More

For as long as I can remember, I’ve wanted to work for myself. To try my own thing. The motivation was simple: I didn’t want to... Read More

This summer, the transatlantic culture war has fixated on an unlikely flash point: air-conditioning. Last weekend, I arrived in Paris at the... Read More

Robert Wright is the author of several books that fall somewhere between popular science and original speculation and is the publisher of the... Read More

This week, the American Enterprise Institute’s new Council on AI Ethics released a “founding document” outlining its... Read More

The 2026 World Cup is one for the books, a tournament of firsts. The first to be hosted by three different countries—United States,... Read More

Memoirs by historians are rare, and biographies of them more so. Eric J. Hobsbawm stands as an exception: He published critically acclaimed... Read More

In 1925, Thomas Mann had reached the apogee of literary achievement. Fresh off the publication of The Magic Mountain the year before, and on... Read More

Last November I suggested that 2026 would witness a tech backlash of unprecedented intensity. And it’s now happening with a vengeance.... Read More

I don’t read personal writing, it bores me, why would I write it? This once, though, I’ll allow a self-insertion. The ideal way... Read More

Even the best of us occasionally finds it hard to resist saying, “I told you so.” In his new book, Where Harvard Went Wrong,... Read More

Movie genres run out of steam. It has ever been thus. So many Westerns were made in the first half-century of the American cinema that they... Read More

This conversation has been edited and condensed. I exist in a funny little corner of the media landscape; I cut my teeth in hard news... Read More

I’d lived in New York for all of 15 days when the Knicks won the NBA championship. Before the final round started, I’d been... Read More

Gone is the day when elderly statesmen govern. Here is the day when eligible bachelors rule. Read More

Modern horror media is always a revelation about the world that produced it, but few of our contemporary myths feel as precisely calibrated... Read More

The biggest hit of 2026 so far, Toy Story 5 has made a whopping $160 million internationally, topping the opening weekend numbers of all... Read More

If you went back in time to New York in the early '90s, not a soul would believe you if you told them Jay-Z would end up where he is today.... Read More