Opinion

Americans, we are told, have never been lonelier. We have fewer friends. We spend more time at home and less time out of the house, socializing face-to-face with other people. And when we interact with other people, it’s often mediated through a device, blunting the stress of the situation. If only there were some magic […]

Former President Joe Biden‘s time in office may be long forgotten by voters (and perhaps by Biden himself), but the nation is still feeling the effects, especially the billions of dollars he wasted in appeasing climate change activists and their delusional panic. Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) revealed that the U.S. Postal Service received more than $3 billion […]

Churchgoing Christians are basically a hate group in the eyes of our liberal elites. Religion, Richard Dawkins wrote 25 years ago, is “a ready-made system of mind control which has been honed over centuries. … To fill a world with religion, or religions of the Abrahamic kind, is like littering the streets with loaded guns. […]

“There are some ideas so absurd,” George Orwell is alleged to have said, “that only an intellectual could believe them.” Intellectuals, the British writer noted, were key to the ascent of some of the most destructive ideologies known to man. But there’s another truth, often overlooked, that helps explain their ascent: privilege. More often than […]

Holidays are nothing but traditions, and traditions should not be broken or changed lightly. Since before this magazine took its current form and name, it has been a tradition of the Life & Arts section to publish a special Christmas Books issue each December, decked with readerly riches that, along with being edifying reviews, might […]

Buon Natale!  Some people may know that’s the Italian phrase for “Merry Christmas.” Others may think it’s a Nat King Cole song from 1959. On Wednesday, the world-famous Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting, which has Italian roots, was held in Manhattan. Another Christmas tradition is the legendary Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli’s annual Christmas season performances […]

Every time I resolve to read through a lengthy work of literature, I am reminded of the funniest scene in Temporary Kings, the penultimate book of Anthony Powell’s 12-volume novel cycle, A Dance to the Music of Time. A wealthy industrialist is informed by his doctors that he has less than a year to live. […]

Dr. Stanley Goldfarb’s Doing Great Harm? isn’t another anti-woke broadside. It’s something rarer: a first-hand dispatch from a man who spent half a century inside the medical establishment, watched it lose its bearings, and decided to do something about it. The story begins with his own cancellation at the University of Pennsylvania’s medical school and […]

In Dealing with Feeling, the latest work of speculative fiction by Marc Brackett, the fantasy is simple: What if, at long last, we could tame the human heart? What if we overcame “the biggest obstacle to achieving our best selves” by developing “care and compassion for ourselves”? What if we could “gain control over our […]

The Walt Disney Company has released some of the world’s finest animated short films and movies for over a century, including Oswald the Lucky Rabbit shorts, Mickey Mouse‘s first appearance in Steamboat Willie, and popular films such as Fantasia, Snow White, and Pinocchio, as well as more recent releases, such as Frozen and Moana. Not […]