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IN THE SUMMER 1989 issue of The American Scholar, Gerald Howard, freshly forced from his editorial role at Viking Penguin, gave voice to his... Read More

I study how AI is reshaping work, including my own. In my job as the head of economics at Anthropic, I’ve personally experienced a... Read More

On August 5, 2013, a man and a woman ate a burger. Not just any burger: a world-historical burger, made from cattle cells grown in a lab by... Read More

Readers familiar with Dr. Seuss’s classic, The Cat in the Hat, will remember the twin chaos agents Thing 1 and Thing 2.... Read More

I attended a reading once where Mary Gaitskill was asked by an eager MFA type about whether her being “famous” had any bearing on... Read More

Last week I wrote a bit about Vermont’s Covered Bridge Week, celebrating our hundred or so quaint but practical mid-19th century... Read More

We judge our enemies by their actions and our allies by their intentions. The moral lapses of our enemies: hypocrisies. The moral lapses of... Read More

When I was a student, years ago, I heard about a secret Stanford class that wasn’t listed in the course catalogue. According to my... Read More

What a glorious time of year. Summer’s end nears like an approaching ship on the hazy horizon. Hints of a crisp autumn begin to present... Read More

The tech ghouls don’t know me like they once did. Despite my attempts to coax the algorithmic overlords away from suggesting interview... Read More

The unsettling images in John Ashbery’s The Tennis Court Oath (1962) were collaged from lines found in a children’s book.... Read More

On Friday, July 31, 2026, Lieutenant Commander James M. Ennes, Jr., U.S. Navy, ret., slipped his cable and unfurled his sails. With the Great... Read More

My Dharma or reason for being is devilishly simple: to maximise pleasure and to shuffle off this mortal coil before the nursing home... Read More

Chang-rae Lee’s new novel, A Tender Age, recalls a period of childhood freedom impossible for today’s iPhone-toting kids —... Read More

On an especially sweltering July afternoon, the sun beats down on a group of men in prison blues brawling on the yard of Atlanta’s... Read More

Is America transitioning to a “postliterate” society? The question has occasioned a flurry of commentary of late. In “The... Read More

Retirement has garnered considerable attention from observers of democratic politics in the past few years. Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Mitch... Read More

The reactionary champions of “free thought” on X have declared The Atlantic’s September cover story by Tyler Austin Harper... Read More

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