Some choices are minor and forgettable. Others have large, lasting repercussions. Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts’s decision to side with podcaster Tucker Carlson in an October 2025 video is decidedly the latter. Carlson had posted a softball interview with Hitler and Stalin devotee Nick Fuentes, in which Carlson attacked Christian Zionists as heretics with a […]
When S.M. Arthur, an honorary fellow of the University of Cambridge, wakes up to the realisation that he’s dead, as he does in “Late,” one of five stories collected in Salman Rushdie’s The Eleventh Hour, he takes it rather well. True enough, having only just entered his seventh decade he “had not envisaged this turn […]
For the overwhelming majority of people whose families, jobs, and personal pursuits loom larger than the endless mergers and acquisitions in Hollywood, the hue and cry over Netflix’s plans to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery is likely to elicit not much more than a shrug. To most ordinary, well-adjusted people, the ownership of a movie studio […]
Stranger Things was never meant to end like this, largely because it was never meant to go on the way it has. The first season was conceived and written as a limited series, with the possibility of succeeding other, entirely different seasons, similar to True Detective or American Horror Story. Someone at Netflix decided during filming that […]
President Trump said he is in “perfect health” and “aced” a cognitive exam for the third time in a row in a TruthSocial post on Friday. “The White House Doctors have just reported that I am in “PERFECT HEALTH,” and that I “ACED” (Meaning, was correct on 100% of the questions asked!), for the third...
President Trump early Friday warned Iran that the U.S. will “rescue” protesters in the nation if the regime further escalates its response to "peaceful" demonstrations. “If Iran [shoots] and violently kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom, the United States of America will come to their rescue," Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social....
January, named for that two-faced Roman god, brings us into a midterm election year. And Janus makes a good emblem for these biennial contests, which are full of double meaning. For the broad electorate, particularly the persuadable voters who decide our elections on a national level, midterms are backward-looking. They are about the implicit and...