A plunging birthrate, deepening socioeconomic divisions, and the chaos produced by China’s failed Zero-COVID policy prove that Xi Jinping and the Party do not have the measure of the nation.
Mixing aesthetics and activism does a disservice to both.
Professionals must learn to work with the machines or they will be replaced by them.
Poverty is not the cause of abuse and neglect.
The entire industry is artifice built atop artifice.
School closings put strain on families and students alike.
A paean to a disappearing and misunderstood literary tradition.
Podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to literary journalist Charlotte Allen about her self-confessed “secret appetite” for trashy Hollywood stories—and her exhaustive Quillette story about Johnny Depp’s successful defamation suit against his ex-wife.
Next time, one hopes, James Cameron will focus as much on the story he tells as the means he uses to tell it.
The movement no longer spares a thought for women who fail to claim additional oppressed identities.
In 2020, a British High Court judge ruled that actor Johnny Depp was probably a “wife beater.” Earlier this year, an American jury disagreed. Who got it right?
In the 1990s, religious Americans embraced science’s re-definition of spirituality. They would be unwise to repeat this mistake.
We need creative thinking and real problem solving to address inequality in education.
Coping with a uniquely painful kind of bereavement.
In ‘The Philosophy of Modern Song,’ Dylan contemplates himself and the art form of which he is the acknowledged master.