In the 27 years since Wes Anderson made Rushmore, his movies have only become more deliriously decorative and ostentatiously ornamental. Among the things audiences will encounter in Anderson’s new movie, The Phoenician Scheme, are shoeboxes containing business plans, multiple rosaries, assorted assassins or would-be assassins, a diplomatic pouch holding handkerchiefs and other valuables, a fruit […]
Amid the recent spate of revivals of British pop and rock music from the 1990s, including Blur’s 2023 album The Ballad of Darren and Oasis’s promised, or threatened, visit to North America’s stadia this summer, the return of the Sheffield act Pulp is the most unexpected and, therefore, the most welcome. When Jarvis Cocker’s troupe […]
Some brands become so dominant in their function that their names eclipse generic terms. We ask for a Kleenex instead of a tissue or Google a topic instead of searching the internet. When the word “Pinkertons” is uttered, we conjure the same image: a private detective, or at least hired muscle. That name, Pinkerton, has […]
Let me concede it right at the start. We do apply a double standard to Israel. No Western country imposes sanctions on the Jewish state over its illegal nuclear weapons program. No one has suggested that we bomb its facilities or assassinate its technicians. The reason for our double standard should be obvious. Israel is […]
Senate Republicans aim to remove taxes on guns in Trump's "big, beautiful bill," while Democrats plan to challenge "ideological trophies" through Senate rules.
Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other...
An appeals court on Thursday allowed President Donald Trump to keep control of National Guard troops he deployed to Los Angeles following protests over immigration raids.
Summer is just dawning, but America’s pastime is already in full swing — not baseball itself, but the long-standing tradition of lamenting its death at the hands of ruthless corporate modernity. This week’s inciting incident was the Boston Red Sox trading homegrown slugger and World Series champion Rafael Devers to the San Francisco Giants, something […]
Is there a book more widely loved than Paradise Lost by an author more universally disliked than John Milton? Catholics dislike Milton for his anti-Catholicism, Anglicans dislike him for his nonconformity, monarchs dislike him for his republicanism, republicans dislike him for his religiosity, and feminists dislike him for his supposed misogyny. Samuel Johnson captured the […]
“You are welcome in Egypt!” Shouted nearly everyone to me when I was there last week. I was in the country for about 10 days, traveling around with my godson. He’s a tall, sandy-haired American guy — all smiles and radiating a warm openness — so maybe that’s what inspired the welcome greetings. Either way, […]