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HARTFORD, Connecticut—In April 2021, a group of protesters gathered in the shadow of the gold dome of the Connecticut Capitol, holding... Read More

Conservatism as a political movement must offer more than platitudes about liberty and the dignity of hard work; it must be a prescriptive... Read More

Sydney Sweeney has upset a lot of people in her short career. Since rising to fame playing “crazy Cassie” in the edgy Gen Z... Read More

The problem with the New York Times’s “30 Greatest Living American Songwriters” list isn’t a matter of taste. The... Read More

When Jason was 17 and “trying to get swole,” he said he and a friend started noticing they were getting served Instagram videos... Read More

Pine Island, despite its name, is not an island. It’s your average Midwestern farm town, population 3,800. Highway 52 cuts through it... Read More

As a sensitivity reader, your job is to peruse novels in progress to ensure that they do not include any harmful depictions of people whose... Read More

The days are getting longer. The weather is—well, unpredictable, but trending warm. The children are becoming restless. Summer is... Read More

Facts are funny things. It was a fact, for instance, that in the spring of 2024 I won $132,000 playing trivia. That May, I’d flown from... Read More

Bill Tracy is clearly not one to brag, but after a while, it seems he just can’t help himself. “I did come up with something... Read More

Every season when I begin this roundup column of new books I’m looking forward to, I find a way to say this is the perfect weather for... Read More

While watching this just-released, kid-targeted film on May Day — a day which socialists since 1886 have celebrated as... Read More

Imax has been in an enviable position since the great box office reset. Read More

At the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in 2006, Stephen Colbert joked that the then-president wouldn’t pay attention to his... Read More

As partnerships go, Robert De Niro has been pretty lucky. For starters, there’s his legendary 50-year run with Martin Scorsese, a... Read More

Let’s travel through time. Put on your bell bottoms, stare dreamily at that lava lamp, turn up the volume on Paul Simon’s... Read More

Without question, the greatest single event in the history of France — at least that I, personally, was involved in — happened on... Read More

We don’t get to choose our fans.  Naomi Kanakia, for example, probably doesn’t want me — a religious-minded,... Read More

From the beginning, Belle Burden’s memoir, Strangers, was the stuff that middle-aged female nightmares are made of. A high-flying woman... Read More

In 2023, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen released a document called “The Techno-Optimist Manifesto,” in which he proclaimed... Read More

What is a nation? This is not a question for polite company. It sounds like the title of a German pamphlet from around 1935. When... Read More

Enough of the American Revolution, at least for a week. Chicago’s on my mind. Forget about Warhol, Lichtenstein, Richter, and Basquiat,... Read More

Dana White marches in lockstep with President Donald Trump into a downtown Miami arena as the Kid Rock song “American Bad Ass”... Read More

On a june day in 2018, I watched a construction loader pour thousands of books into a big green dumpster. It had appeared overnight, parked... Read More

Good afternoon, everyone. Free letter today. At the end of April, I asked my readers to respond to three brief questions about novels meant... Read More

Jacobin readers hardly need to be told that the new Boots Riley movie I Love Boosters is a must-see. It’s been eight years since the... Read More

Let the screaming and crying commence. With recent polling now in rough alignment with the betting markets, it looks like former reality... Read More

The writer, poet, curator, and professor Lucy Ives isn’t shy about her influences. In her 2022 novel, Life is Everywhere, she included... Read More

My father dropped out of Harvard during the Cold War. He had planned to sail around the world in search of himself. Instead, he joined the... Read More

Ryan Burge is a political scientist and ordained Baptist minister. Recently, he has also emerged as something of an antiprophet of... Read More

Last month, when I was in the Washington, DC, area for a week, there were two places I knew I wanted to make the time to see: the Washington... Read More

One day in the 1960s, in a forest in Tanzania, a 26-year-old British ethologist watched a chimpanzee she had nicknamed “David... Read More

A man is walking down a crowded street at night, when a machine unexpectedly turns to greet him. Inside a glowing store window is an Apple... Read More

The Amazon rainforest, according to a 2021 study, is losing its capacity as a carbon sink and now emits more than it absorbs. In the tropics,... Read More