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Gen Z’s Politics Are Hard to Categorize December 24, 2024
We live, at first blush, under the absolute dominion of celebrity. The former and future president of the United States spent more than a decade as a reality TV star. Taylor Swift just concluded the largest and most lucrative pop music tour in the hi...
Our Holiday Reading Picks December 24, 2024
As life slows down for most of us, the Christmas season is a great time for extra reading. Law & Liberty‘s staff, contributing editors, and senior writers offer some recommendations....
How to Give a Real Gift December 24, 2024
This month as I, and the rest of the world, have conducted the rounds of shopping for Christmas and Hanukkah and the holidays in general, I’ve been thinking more and more about what it means to give a good gift. What can I possibly buy that they don’...
The Lie Before Christmas December 24, 2024
At this time of year, nowhere in Britain has a firmer grip on the public imagination than Rosehill Cottage from The Holiday. In recent years the Nancy Meyers film has overtaken Love Actually as our platonic ideal of a Christmas film; the chocolate-bo...
The Absurd Genius of Netflix Christmas Films December 23, 2024
Ah, the holidays, that season of sensory delights. A Christmas tree twinkling in the corner, the scent of cinnamon wafting through the air, and on the television, a wholesome, snow-draped fantasy film driven by one pivotal question: What if Frosty th...
The 12 Oscar Contenders of Christmas December 23, 2024
The awards circus takes a two-week break around the holidays,* returning on January 5 for the Golden Globes. That makes the week before Christmas the perfect time to zoom out and take stock of the wider race. Which Oscar hopefuls have done enough to ...
A Very Merry Tom Wolfe Christmas December 18, 2024
My younger self would be appalled by the person I’ve become around the holidays....
Winter 2024 Book List December 17, 2024
It is the “holiday season,” which means it’s time for you to make your sacrificial offering to the Baals of our cult of consumerism…I mean, to commemorate the Almighty’s gift-of-self by giving gifts to your loved ones....
AIR MAIL’s 10 Best Books of 2024 December 13, 2024
Percival Everett’s twist on Huckleberry Finn; biographies of Reagan and Isherwood, Didion, and Babitz; and more holiday reading for every type....
Was 'Fat Is a Feminist Issue' Liberating? December 10, 2024
The history of how women have endeavored to change, and usually shrink, the shape of our bodies is littered with artifacts so horrible they are often humorous: the massive, vibrating Magic Couch that promised 1950s husbands weight loss for their wive...
The World of Tomorrow December 10, 2024
Progress used to be glamorous. For the first two thirds of the twentieth-century, the terms modern, future, and world of tomorrow shimmered with promise.Glamour is more than a synonym for fashion or celebrity, although these things can certainly be g...
Hughes for the Holidays December 09, 2024
The older I get, the more convinced I become that the golden age of entertainment was in the late-1980s and 1990s. Historian Rudyard Lynch of the popular YouTube channel, “WhatIfAltHist,” quite astutely calls this pre-millennium era “John Hughes and ...
The One Hundred Pages Strategy December 09, 2024
Almost nothing I have written in the last few years has given rise to more correspondence than a throwaway column about reading, in which I alluded to what I call the “hundred pages strategy.” This is exactly what it sounds like: every day, come rain...
The 50 Best Airplane Movies, Ranked December 05, 2024
Over the holiday season, something like 7.5 million people will step foot in an airport and take to the skies. That’s a lot of delays, a lot of airport beers, and a lot of wondering about how the person in front of you has seemingly never gone throug...
The 2024 Sweat Science Holiday Book List December 03, 2024
Nothing says “winter holidays” to me like the combo of a cold day, a warm fire, a soft couch, and a book. If you’re looking for some couch material—or gift ideas for the endurance people in your life—here are the books I’ve enjoyed most this year tha...
'Moana 2' Is a Watered-Down Rehash of the Original December 03, 2024
On the fictional South Pacific island of Motunui, there now exists a variety of tween girl known as the “Moanabe” (pronounced “Mo-wannabe”). These eager, sometimes awkward young ladies stan a queen who’s also well known to the rest of the world: the ...
