Opinion

When I was 18 years old, I went to the dentist. And he told me what he was taught in dental school to tell every 18-year-old who came to see him. “You need to get your wisdom teeth out,” he said. He filled out a little form for me to bring to the oral surgeon, […]

At least 15 Republican-led states have sued the Biden administration after the Department of Education released revised Title IX regulations, arguing the move will strip females of single-sex spaces and males of due process rights. Since mid-April, Texas, Ohio, Virginia, and Florida are among the states contesting the administration’s revision of the regulations, which prohibit […]

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 […]

The reboot series that began with 2011’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes is one of the very few postmillennial retreads that justified itself. Planet of the Apes, the classic 1968 thought experiment about a simian genocide of the human race and the victim of a forgettable 2001 Tim Burton remake, became the inspiration […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]