President Trump endorsed North Carolina state Rep. Jennifer Balkcom, the replacement GOP nominee running for U.S. House after Rep. Chuck Edwards dropped his re-election bid.
In 2018 the journalist Patrick Radden Keefe, a writer at the New Yorker who is particularly adept at using true crime as a vehicle for probing intellectual questions, published Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland. The book looked at the ripple effects of a notorious, decades-old crime: the 1972 […]
Soldiers, sailors, Marines, airmen, and Guardians are all service members. We may focus on them storming a beach or driving a tank or soaring the skies in a jet, but regardless of what they do, they’re all said to be “in the service.” I recently spoke with retired Army 1st Sgt. Travis Baker, asking about […]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe has long been regarded as a true master of German literature. While few anglophone readers today are familiar with Goethe’s entire body of work, its influence, especially Faust, echoes in modern books, movies, classical and contemporary music, opera, and more. His first novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther, was one of […]
“New York is a city of things unnoticed,” declares Gay Talese at the beginning of A Town Without Time, the new collection of his journalistic work centered on New York. New Jersey-born Gay Talese made a brand-new start of it in New York in the early 1950s. After a stint as a copy boy for […]
Dune: Prophecy, HBO’s prequel series to the blockbuster films of the same name, opens with a quasi-cryptic epigraph about war set against an abstract, smoky monochrome backdrop — an implicit promise to the viewer that it will deliver more of the awesome, austere sturm-and-drang that made those films the most artistically successful fantasy adaptations since […]
No living American filmmaker can be plausibly said to have undergone such a profound artistic evolution as Clint Eastwood. From a greenhorn starring in Rawhide to an auteur of international standing in under a dozen years. Nor can any claim a comparable list of outright masterpieces: The Outlaw Josey Wales, Bronco Billy, Bird, the supreme […]
In a Wednesday news report, Politico’s Jason Beeferman snarks about how “the influential, far-right New York Post” seems interested in Rep. Ritchie Torres’ likely...
The 2024 election marked the worst performance for a Democratic presidential candidate in the Empire State in over 30 years, with Kamala Harris underperforming...
Imagine your child has been placed in the care of people dead set on imposing an ideology squarely at odds with your religious convictions. At first, you are told that you can shield them, only to be informed shortly thereafter that you can’t. This is what is happening at pre-K-8 public schools in Montgomery County, […]
The public tide is finally turning against the incoherent, destructive ideology of transgender activists and toward the side of sanity and protecting women and children from disastrous policy decisions. The Supreme Court is on the verge of upholding Tennessee’s ban on child sex changes, or, as they are euphemistically called, “gender-affirming care,” with both the […]
