Politics
Sunak’s British Reaction Is the prime minister cultivating a future for the Conservative party?
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Maybe you shared that viral video of Kimberly “Sweet Brown” Wilkins telling a reporter after narrowly escaping an apartment fire, “Ain’t nobody got time for that!”
Perhaps you posted that meme...
Culture
Daddy Issues We have enabled a culture of patricide.
Foreign Affairs
The Eight-Year-Old’s Iraq Twenty years after the Iraq invasion: It was the last period of true optimism, with a sense that...
Play the Game Have you ever noticed the conservative establishment is always compromised in the same way?
Unranked top 100, roughly. Tried to make this for a friend. As definitive as I can get for now, but lots I would have liked to include.
Miami Vice Hellboy Hellboy II: The Golden Army Buffalo '66...
For many opera goers, the Royal Opera House’s (ROH’s) latest production of Puccini’s Turandot will be considered an example of truly diverse casting, with performers coming from across the globe.
The...
When talking to Father Doran about why he must claim the land he’s rented and worked in for years, “Bull” McCabe begins to lose himself as he recounts his mother’s death…
He knew she... he...
‘The World That We Will Live and Die In’
Sen. J.D. Vance talks foreign policy in an exclusive interview.
The Gathering Storm America’s self-inflicted trouble in Ukraine aggravates our dangerous trouble at home.
China’s Petroyuan Stunts The dollar has ruled the roost since 1944 and, brother, it is not going anywhere.
The Fall of Silicon Valley Bank State of the Union: Two major bank failures illustrate the risks of financialization.
The Win Condition Can our entanglement with online life be redeemed?
Past Prophet Michael Moore’s 2018 anti-Trump jeremiad serves as a warning to the hysterical purveyors of pessimism.
From GQ: Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is a cult movie for the kind of middle-aged 3-digit IQ guys with demanding jobs who are usually too busy to have a cult movie. As I wrote in 2003:...
In his first network TV interview since being kicked off the pages of hundreds of newspapers for comments widely perceived as racist, the creator and writer of the Dilbert comic strip declined to apologize.
“No,...
Our brand new episode of The Searchers podcast out now! This time, Ben, Chris, and I are hopping across the starry skies of Matthew Vaughn’s fantasy caper, Stardust! Find us on Podbean, Spotify,...
It happened again last week: another American came to Hungary, and was startled by how different things actually are here than the way this country is portrayed in the media. I had drinks with the visitor,...
Children’s horror author R.L. Stine has accused his publisher of editing references to weight, mental health, and ethnicity in over a dozen of his books without his permission.
Certain titles from...
The Southern Poverty Law Center grift just got even uglier:
A lawyer for the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) was arrested and charged with domestic terrorism over the violence that broke out...
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