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Making Music with His Friends January 24, 2024
The following is a condensed version of "Making Music with His Friends" by John G. Grove, published at Law & Liberty. From childhood, he has admired the straightlaced singing cowboy Gene Autry; he’s also the world’s most famous pot-smoking hippie. In...
When Truth Is Lost in Translation January 12, 2024
The following is a condensed version of "When Truth Is Lost in Translation" by Roy Mathews, published at Law & Liberty.Narratives concerning the marginalized have come to dominate American institutions and popular culture. The plight of a plethora of...
The Unbearable Lightness of Seeing December 27, 2023
The following is a condensed version of "The Unbearable Lightness of Seeing" by Rachel Lu, published at Law & Liberty. A year or so after we were married, my husband asked me a question. It was unexpected, but it started a train of thought that retur...
Thirty Years After 'The Morning After' December 12, 2023
The following is a condensed version of "Thirty Years After The Morning After" by Elizabeth Grace Matthew, published at Law & Liberty.Thirty years ago, Katie Roiphe’s The Morning After: Sex, Fear, and Feminism challenged the emphasis on “rape culture...
Spinning Through Time November 17, 2023
The following is a condensed version of "Spinning Through Time" by Asheesh Agarwal, published at Law & Liberty.What would it feel like to live in Middle Earth?In its adaptation of Robert Jordan’s classic series, Amazon Prime immerses viewers in the w...
A Domestic Activist Makes Her Case November 08, 2023
The following is a condensed version of "A Domestic Activist Makes Her Case" by Gillian Richards, published at Law & Liberty. We can reclaim civilization, says Peachy Keenan (a pseudonym), but only if more women become just a little more “domestic.” ...
The Demons We’ve Made November 02, 2023
The following is a condensed version of "The Demons We've Made" by Zachary R. Goldsmith, published at Law & Liberty. Fyodor Dostoevsky’s 1872 novel Demons is, at its core, a story of fathers and sons, a story of two generations typified by Stepan, th...
Who is Elon Musk? October 26, 2023
The following is a condensed version of "Public Enemy Number One?" by John O. McGinnis, published at Law & Liberty.Elon Musk’s brilliant career was made by possible by three things: his relentless genius, America’s openness to foreign born talents, a...
Shouting Your Pronouns in a Crowded Theater October 13, 2023
The following is a condensed version of "Shouting Your Pronouns in a Crowded Theater" by Dave Barfield, published at Law & Liberty.Let’s try out a thought experiment. Imagine you’re in a crowded theater and someone yells, “Fire!” What happens? People...
Of Monsters and Men September 28, 2023
The following is a condensed version of "Of Monsters and Men" by Richard M. Reinsch II, published at Law & Liberty. In a web of friendship, class, patriotism, and political ideology lurks the world of the British spies and communist traitors depicted...
We Should Still Love Kojak September 21, 2023
The following is a condensed version of "We Should Still Love Kojak" by Casey Chalk, published at Law & Liberty.NYPD detective Lieutenant Theodopolis "Theo" Kojak’s eponymous CBS series represented something new in police dramas when it debuted fifty...
Transcending Technopessimism September 15, 2023
The following is a condensed version of "Transcending Technopessimism" by Rachel Lomasky, published at Law & Liberty.Technopessimism is reaching a fever pitch, fueled by headlines like, "Meta’s AI internet chatbot starts spewing fake news," "Self-dri...
Taking the Measure of Man September 07, 2023
The following is a condensed version of "Taking the Measure of Man" by Rachel Lu, published at Law & Liberty. Sometimes, a book manages to impress simply by exceeding low expectations. Senator Josh Hawley’s Manhood was, for me, such a book. I flipped...
Albert Camus and the Crisis of the West August 29, 2023
The following is a condensed version of "Camus and the Crisis of the West" by Graham McAleer, published at Law & Liberty.When a winner of the Nobel prize for literature writes about the history of political ideas, you get Albert Camus’s The Rebel. Pu...
Bringing Fire from the Gods August 22, 2023
The following is a condensed version of "Bringing Fire from the Gods" by David Krugler, published at Law & Liberty. The unbilled star of the film Oppenheimer is a metal monster named Gadget, which resembles a heavy-plated diving bell bristling with c...
A Generation Alone August 08, 2023
The following is a condensed version of "One Generation Passeth Away, and Another Cometh" by Sam Negus, published at Law & Liberty.Three millennia ago, King Solomon wrote that “folly is bound up in the heart of a child.” It has ever been thus: the ru...
The New Cynicism of Final Fantasy XVI August 03, 2023
The following is a condensed version of "The New Cynicism of Final Fantasy XVI" by S.P. Cooper, published at Law & Liberty.At first glance, the video game industry seems to be about as far removed from the American political situation as it is possib...
Get Woke, Go Broke? July 25, 2023
The following is a condensed version of "Get Woke, Go Broke?" by James E. Hartley, published at Law & Liberty. “Woke Capitalism is a growing and troubling dimension of contemporary economic and political life, especially among the mammoth multination...
Driving Like Ayn Rand July 17, 2023
The following is a condensed version of "Driving Like Ayn Rand" by G. Patrick Lynch, published at Law & Liberty.Ayn Rand would have loved Netflix’s Formula 1 reality series Drive to Survive. It depicts the sport as exciting and hip, but also individu...
The Emperor’s Tutor July 07, 2023
The following is a condensed version of "The Emperor's Tutor" by Ralph L. DeFalco III, published at Law & Liberty. In 1988, Wang Huning was a well-known political scientist and Professor of International Affairs at China’s Fudan University. That same...
J.K. Rowling's Moment of Truth June 20, 2023
The following is a condensed version of "J.K. Rowling's Moment of Truth" by Rachel Lu, published at Law & Liberty. J. K. Rowling is not a witch. She acquitted herself well in her recent “trial,” a podcast series hosted by The Free Press, detailing th...
Taylor Sheridan's Fallen World June 01, 2023
The following is a condensed version of "Taylor Sheridan's Fallen World" by Mark Eckel, published at Law & Liberty. Each 21st century Taylor Sheridan hero fights for ideals in reality’s gray landscape. Sicario offers a hard look at the drug trade, qu...
12 Years A Slave: A Reevaluation After America’s “Racial Reckoning” May 26, 2023
The following is a condensed version of "12 Years A Slave: A Reevaluation After America’s Racial Reckoning" by Gage Klipper, published at Law & Liberty.This year marks the 10-year anniversary of the release of 12 Years a Slave, the “triumphant” Steve...
A Fable for Our Time May 16, 2023
The following is a condensed version of "A Fable for our Time" by Matthew Pheneger, published at Law & Liberty. By the time of his death at the age of 101, the German author and veteran soldier Ernst Jünger had written enough to fill eighteen volumes...
Surviving Hyperculture May 04, 2023
The following is a condensed version of "Surviving Hyperculture" by Emina Melonic, published at Law & Liberty. Does the term “culture” even mean anything, given humanity’s turn away from particularity and toward a more fluid world of never-ending cha...
