Pop music, like the rest of American society, has reached the exhausted endpoint of the taboo-litigation mania that’s marred the past decade of our national life. Having reckoned with racism, sexism, and a host of other identitarian crimes, and then having decided the reckoning was too embarrassing in its overreach for us to continue or […]
The Middle East was but a “sideshow” of a great power war, the legendary World War I British officer T.E. Lawrence, “Lawrence of Arabia,” indirectly admitted nearly a decade after the Great War’s end. Yet Lawrence himself had been drawn mothlike to the region’s flame, optimistically — some might say foolishly — projecting his hopes […]
If any modern fashion designer warrants an obsessive biography, it’s Virgil Abloh. Through the 2010s, he made some of the most iconic Nike sneakers, founded one of the most important new fashion brands, Off-White, and gave men’s luxury a whole new look as creative director of menswear at Louis Vuitton despite having no formal fashion […]
The proper role of judges has been on many a mind in recent years. In summer 2020, New York Times resident race scold and professional hysteric Jamelle Bouie penned “Down With Judicial Supremacy!,” a column urging Democrats to challenge “the idea that the courts, and the courts alone, determine constitutional meaning.” In March, the Federalist’s […]
Catholicism has become youth culture. As I write this, American youth are fetishizing the Catholic Church (what the New York Times called “New York’s Hottest Club”). Gen Zers are converting to Catholicism and posting about “sedevacantism,” the fringe-traditionalist Catholic belief that the papacy has been illegitimate since the Second Vatican. A Harvard University study showed […]
Too Much, the 10-episode Netflix series from Lena Dunham, invites a series of unflattering comparisons to the Girls auteur’s earlier work. There’s the shared cast (Dunham, show-stealer Andrew Rannells, Rita Wilson, and beloved character actor Richard Grant all make reappearances); the rapid-fire, zeitgeisty dialogue (Dunham wrote or co-wrote every episode); the messy, socially dysfunctional, yet […]
The night Israel launched its stunning aerial campaign against Iran last month, incredible stories began emerging from Tehran of senior generals and nuclear scientists assassinated in their apartments, attack drones launched by Israel from warehouses inside Iran, explosions at nuclear facilities, and even Mossad agents in Tehran. No matter how outlandish the rumors, they’d almost […]
Shoplifting, murder, acid-throwing, hammer blows, knives, guns, and nearly every kind of threat proliferated in Paris in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Yet Paris was called the City of Light. It was home to cultural bastions such as the Louvre and to artists like Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Vincent van […]
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s recent document dumps expose the determined and persistent campaign of former CIA Director John Brennan to use and abuse his office for the political aim of defeating Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in 2016, trying to undermine Trump after he won, and weakening or derailing Trump’s presidency before it even […]
I was halfway asleep on a very long plane ride when the flight attendant made a request. “Is there anyone on board,” she asked into the plane’s intercom, “who is a medical doctor?” I suppose she’s had enough experience with pompous academics with Ph.D.s that she felt the need to specify medical doctor. How many […]
School “meditation rooms” and “harm-reduction circles,” a new study shows, don't cure juvenile delinquents but instead undermine teachers' authority and lead to more chaotic...
Three cheers for the Manhattan jury that quickly acquitted CVS clerk Scott Enoe of manslaughter for defending himself and his fellow employees against a...
