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Revolt of the Dandies April 24, 2025
The decline of Western culture is most easily perceived not in our galleries and museums, or even on our stages and screens, but in the wardrobes of American men and women. Stroll the main streets of our cities. Is this really how the citizens of the...
The Wildest Fashion Show in Sports Is…Little League? April 23, 2025
I’m a rotten father. I haven’t bought my Little Leaguer a sliding mitt. For the unfamiliar: The sliding mitt is baseball’s strange yet omnipresent style accessory. It’s a long, padded glove designed to protect a base runner’s fingertips when sliding ...
Director Ryan Coogler on 'Sinners' April 22, 2025
Ryan Coogler is the film darling of the moment right now, and for good reason. He’s got a good old-fashioned heater on his hands with Sinners, which pulled in over $60 million globally this weekend—and he's been having a lot of fun, charming movie fa...
American Faust April 21, 2025
It is abundantly clear, nearly ten years since he descended that gold-trimmed escalator, that Donald Trump is the most significant political figure of our time. Even his most bitter enemies would have to admit, however distasteful it may be, that no ...
The Return of High Fashion April 16, 2025
There are various ways one can track the health of a culture, from censuses to BMI, to the stock market, but one metric that is especially illuminating in its power to tell the story of an era’s values is fashion.When God designed the first outfit an...
Fashionable Nonsense April 15, 2025
You’ve heard the rumors. People named Dennis are more likely to become dentists. If you do a little ritual before you go on stage, you’ll perform better. If you give your employees chocolate chip cookies, they will become, as if by magic, more motiva...
Do the Clothes Make the Marriage? April 15, 2025
On June 29, 1994, Diana, Princess of Wales, chose her outfit carefully. This was not unusual for the most photographed woman in the world. For years, her symbiotic relationship with the press had allowed her to signal the state of her marriage throug...
The Smithsonian Is Even Worse Than You Think April 08, 2025
President Trump’s “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” executive order has been the source of much consternation and caterwauling among academic elites. “The cretin,” they cry, “wants to whitewash history. He is denying the pain of slaver...
Can Cowboy Fever Make Bull Riding the Next UFC? April 07, 2025
The professional Bull Riders have been coming to New York’s Madison Square Garden since 2007, but, in the first week of this year, they arrive in a city that is saturated with cowboy fever at every level. The whole country, really, is in the throes o...
Call Her “Daddy”! March 05, 2025
The hottest accessory in women’s fashion requires no cleverly engineered underwear, no skipped meals, and no waiting lists. Interested? See me in my office. Not that I have one—a trivial detail since that is not a requirement for nailing a tie.Ventur...
MAGA Is the New Black January 29, 2025
Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday marked the promised return of things that many Americans would say make the country great: secure borders, law and order, two genders, American ingenuity—and, not the least of these, good fashion....
Ralph Lauren, American Patriot January 22, 2025
On January 4, President Joe Biden honored nineteen individuals with the Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor. While one could argue that some were less deserving of the award than others, I believe that one honoree deserved it without questio...
We Also Need Democracy in Aesthetics January 21, 2025
In a new book entitled BACKBONE: Why American Populism Should Be Welcomed, Not Feared, author Karl Zinsmeister reports on middle Americans living all across the country, and why they want dramatic change in the direction of our country. He examines p...
Fashion Police: Inauguration Edition January 21, 2025
Glam was back yesterday in D.C., for most everyone other than Kamala Harris, who wore a casual leisure suit that screamed both “Chico’s” and “Give me the other half of the Xanax, Doug.”We don’t blame her. The weather alone—in a word: arctic—was enoug...
Trump Can Make The Arts Great Again January 21, 2025
America’s cultural institutions are failing. Once bastions of creativity and beauty, they have become overt ideological battlegrounds, prioritizing politics over art and alienating the very audiences they are meant to inspire. Grants and awards are d...
Who's Afraid of Red Scare? January 20, 2025
“It cannot become old-fashioned because it is not part of a fashion.” Preface to the Decoration Designs of Francis Crease, Evelyn Waugh.“Beware of identity politics. I'll rephrase that: have nothing to do with identity politics. I remember very well ...
Teenage Wasteland October 22, 2024
My introduction to Abercrombie & Fitch came through LFO’s “Summer Girls,” the 1999 song best remembered for name-checking the brand multiple times. I remember asking my mom what Abercrombie & Fitch was, because I had never even heard of it. Growing u...
In Defense of the Hot Rabbi October 17, 2024
Netflix’s newest chart-topper, Nobody Wants This, is about a gorgeous sex podcaster who falls for a charming rabbi. What’s not to love? Here is a highly accessible story featuring Jews that is not about escaping an insular ultra-Orthodox community to...
Put Pete Rose in the Hall of Fame October 07, 2024
The story of Pete Rose is the story of America. It’s my story. It’s our story. A life failed, in the richest and most spectacular fashion. A miserable, downtrodden, hopeless romance with the juice. A desperate desire to fix. And the supreme knowledge...
The State of Sexuality in Fashion Week September 20, 2024
Hello and welcome back to Many Such Cases.Last week, I had too much fun attending Elena Velez’s New York Fashion Week show documenting her Spring 2025 Ready-to-Wear collection “La Pucelle” on Tuesday, and the after party that followed. The next day, ...
'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice' Reanimates the Corpse of Tim Burton September 09, 2024
There was every reason to approach Beetlejuice Beetlejuice with the trepidation of a haunted-house owner opening a creaky attic door. The original Beetlejuice is 36 years old now, one of those perennial crowd-pleasers that has achieved the rank of co...
Celebrating the Centennial of the Most Underappreciated American of Our Time September 06, 2024
The following essay is adapted from the recently released book Lessons in Liberty: Thirty Rules for Living from Ten Extraordinary Americans (HarperCollins) September 7th marks the one-hundredth birthday of one of the most extraordinary and inspiring...
American Men’s Tennis Is Partying Like It’s 2009 September 06, 2024
What were you doing in the summer of 2009? Appraising Bradley Cooper’s comedic chops in The Hangover? Wondering if Obama could really get it together to pass a health-care bill? Collecting unemployment thanks to that pesky global recession? Look, the...
Demi Moore’s Glorious Return September 04, 2024
“I’m warning you: She loves to dominate a teddy bear,” Demi Moore says as her teacup Chihuahua, Pilaf, toddles into the room. Moore, perched on a kitchen stool in her Los Angeles home, watches her dog with a sly smile. “You’re going to see some humpi...
Inklings on the Move September 02, 2024
In recent decades, Tolkien and Lewis have attracted a formidable cohort of scholars and critics. To review two additions to their bibliographies is to notice how far things have come since the days when fashionable criticasters could airily dismiss t...
