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Apple released a controversial new ad last week that it apologized for a mere 48 hours later. The ad, released on X, features a large collection of artistic items, including paints, a trumpet, a statue, a piano, books, and an acoustic guitar, stacked between the cold steel of an enormous hydraulic press. As the machine […]

Something went out of public life the day that W.H. Auden died in 1973 at age 66. Oh, there were still people writing poetry, still journals publishing it, still a section labeled “Poetry” in high school textbooks, still a cultural lip service paid to the old literary endeavor. But after the death of Auden, nothing […]

It’s difficult to overstate how barren and lonely intellectual life at Brown University felt as a policy major circa mid-2005, at least if one was more interested in policy than politics. It’s not that there weren’t a bunch of very bright people around, just that most had reliably been informed that everything had fundamentally been […]

In the canon of culture war literature, Nellie Bowles’s Morning After the Revolution may be distinguished from its contemporaries by what it lacks. It does not boast the intellectual rigors of Christopher Rufo or Richard Hanania. (Foucault is mentioned only once.) Nor does it adopt an exclusive, internet-born patois like Peachy Keenan or Bronze Age […]

Sometimes the stories I encounter in this job leave me stunned. To wit, I recently spoke with Aviation Electrician’s Mate 2nd Class Anthony O’Malley, who served aboard the USS Forrestal during a deadly disaster in 1967.  Graduating high school in 1963, O’Malley was inspired by his sailor uncle to enlist in the Navy in ’64. […]

Two House committees on Thursday advanced measures to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress in an effort to censure him for failing to turn over audio recordings of the president. A last-minute move from President Biden to claim executive privilege over audio recordings from his interview with special counsel Robert Hur did...

A House Oversight Committee hearing devolved into chaos Thursday night as Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) clashed after the firebrand Republican accused Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) of wearing “fake eyelashes.” The comment — which was made during a markup to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress — prompted nearly an...

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) went after his GOP colleagues who traveled to New York City to appear at former President Trump’s criminal trial this week. The California Democrat specifically took it to his colleagues who skipped a hearing Thursday over whether to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt and instead attended Trump’s trial. “Well,...

A bill in California that sought to ban the sale of anti-aging skin products to young kids failed to advance through the California State Assembly on Thursday. The bill, introduced by Assemblymember Alex Lee, prohibited kids under 13 from buying over-the-counter anti-aging items containing vitamin A or its derivatives, including retinol or retinoids, or an alpha...

Fox News anchor Laura Ingraham applauded Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker on Thursday after he gave controversial speech including remarks on women in the workforce. Butker’s commencement speech at Benedictine College made clear his conservative politics, including attacks on in vitro fertilization, surrogacy, gay pride marches, “degenerate cultural values,” abortion, and President Joe Biden....

Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Marjorie Taylor Greene had a heated exchange Thursday evening during what was supposed to be a contempt hearing for Attorney General Merrick Garland.

Residents of impacted communities are heading to Washington to speak in favor of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act before it expires this summer.