Imagine if a 2026 tradwife fell back into the 1850s: Would it be the life she always wanted, or is her nostalgic cosplay from a world that never existed? That’s the premise of Caro Claire Burke’s novel Yesteryear, which simultaneously attracts and repulses readers as much as the tradwife movement itself. We feel some tug […]
If you’re over 40, none of the following will require explanation. It’s literary canon, etched into your memory over countless summer days watching reruns, or days spent home “sick,” watching game shows in the morning and comedy reruns in the afternoon until your parents came home and you had to pretend that you hadn’t spent […]
With its ornate facade resembling an ocean liner, gilded portholes, and fat cherubs hanging festoons of grapes, the Hotel Lutetia is known as the Left Bank’s grand hotel. The hotel’s motto, “Fluctuat nec mergitur” (“She is tossed by the waves, but does not sink”), is also the motto of Paris itself, suggesting the city’s resilience. […]
The late Sen. Lindsey Graham was a fierce opponent of Vladimir Putin’s Russia, the Islamic Republic of Iran, and other authoritarian regimes. A new law named in Graham’s honor would strengthen sanctions against Moscow and Tehran and could help bring an end to a long and devastating war. Congress should pass it without delay. The […]
What if, in celebration of America’s 250th birthday, we eschewed UFC fights on the White House lawn and Grand Prix races around the streets of Washington, D.C., and instead buried our heads in an eclectic and engaging volume of short takes on all manner of quintessentially American phenomena? Happily, this idea, inspired and inspirational, is no […]
For many men, especially those who consider themselves part of the online “red pill” or “black pill” communities, there is no worse fate in life than finding oneself in a “friend zone” relationship with a desirable woman. For the red pill community, named after a scene in the 1999 film The Matrix, women automatically sort […]
If a person didn’t know any better, he or she might be under the impression that Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) flew to El Salvador earlier this month to demand the release of an imprisoned political dissident fighting for democracy. No, he was just checking in on alleged MS-13 gang member and former illegal immigrant […]
Some police officers are corrupt, some are lazy, but many do an exceptionally demanding job with courage and professionalism. Ask any veteran officer about their life’s work, and they will likely tell you two things: First, that they wouldn’t do anything else, and second, that the job takes a psychological toll. Officers see too much […]
The 2028 election seems as if it is a lifetime away. Still, some Democrats are already striving for the prize of becoming the party’s presidential nominee. The problem for the Democrats is that the contenders thus far are underwhelming. Many Democrats must be thinking, “Can’t we do better?” President Donald Trump’s defeat of former Vice […]
President Donald Trump promised his tariffs would revitalize American industry. He apparently meant the lobbying industry. Had Trump’s goal been to stimulate lobbying on tariffs and trade, he could not have executed a better trade policy. As you would expect, the lobbyists who are getting the most new business are close allies of Trump and […]
Elite universities are so determined to fight the Trump administration that they’ve decided to double down on their antisemitism, and stick with anti-Israel protestors and ideological rigidity. If they hadn’t abandoned scholarly rigor years ago, they’d remember the first rule of finding yourself in a hole. Stop digging. The confrontation breaking out between universities and […]
The entire Right is being undermined by President Donald Trump. When the impact of his tariffs is felt, people won’t blame interventionism, protectionism, or economic nationalism. They will blame capitalism. Voters are already clocking that Trumponomics doesn’t work. According to YouGov, 57% of people think Trump’s actions on the economy have hurt the country, while […]
The joke about political science is that it’s not about politics, and it’s not a science. This would have surprised Aristotle, the ancient inventor of the field, and Machiavelli, its modern reinventor. Both believed politics were a means to the end Aristotle called a telos, an objective. For Aristotle, the telos was the cultivation of virtue and happiness […]
The Trump administration and its allies in Congress are attacking the Supreme Court for blocking attempts to deport illegal immigrants under the Alien Enemies Act before the alleged aliens can challenge the use of that authority in court. While the White House is right that the Supreme Court’s decision to issue such an order is […]
Thirty years ago this month, I sat in a suburban movie house and watched America’s sweetheart stumble backward into love. No, the picture wasn’t Pretty Woman, Sleepless in Seattle, or You’ve Got Mail, though those 1990s classics deserve columns of their own. Rather, it was a film that nearly fell apart before it could be […]
Some historical fiction is uncontroversial because it presents the past merely as a backdrop for a story that does not suggest new facts or challenge widely accepted interpretations. Other successful creations go the other way, dispensing with the truth so brazenly that they render caveats fatuous because their narratives aren’t so much revisionist history as […]
A friend of mine sent me a text last month. “Hope you’re doing well,” he said. “Any time for a call, just to catch up?” It’s always nice when a friend reaches out — this friend is particularly diligent at staying in touch — so we set a time for a chat the next day. […]
At a time when the president of the United States tells everyone within earshot that he wants Canada to become America’s “cherished 51st state,” it feels mildly unpatriotic as a Canadian to review a book titled Don’t Be Canada, even more so for an American publication. Yet there is no escaping the fact that something […]
America has fewer grand homes-turned-museums than Europe, for the perfectly simple reason that there have been Americans living grandly for so much less time. New York City has an unusually small number, and most of these bear no resemblance to their original uses. The Frick Collection is different. The museum, overlooking Central Park on Manhattan’s […]
