Citizen Sane
The mainstreaming of therapy culture may be driving us all out of our minds.
Steve Salerno
· 18 min read
Long Read
A collection of 242 posts
Stories You Don’t Want to Be Told
A new exhibition curated by Lars von Trier provides a fascinating look at who and what has influenced one of the world’s most prodigiously gifted and provocative filmmakers.
Jaspreet Singh Boparai
· 30 min read
The Passion of Bess McNeill
Lars von Trier’s harrowing but resplendent story of suffering and grace turns thirty this year.
Charlotte Allen
· 21 min read
Reshaping the Middle East
Reconsidering Israel’s wars in 1956, 1982, and 2026.
Shany Mor
· 21 min read
The Menace of a Respectable Hatred
What remains of a person, an institution, or a civilisation that dishonours itself when Jews and Israel become the targets of hatred and violence?
Yuki Zeman
· 16 min read
Never Neverland
The new Michael Jackson biopic and the campaign to whitewash the King of Pop’s reputation.
Andrew Hammel
· 32 min read
Kingdom Come
A new book about Stephen King’s early novels will only appeal to hardcore fans, but its very existence is a reminder of its subject’s incalculable cultural impact.
Kevin Mims
· 26 min read
Staring at the Sea
It would be very difficult to make a great film from a source as flawed as Camus’s novel, but Ozon has managed to make a very good one.
Jaspreet Singh Boparai
· 19 min read
Reading Orwell in the Age of AI
Prescient about the possibility of machine-generated writing, George Orwell’s life and work offer a deeper warning about the LLM era.
Matt Johnson
· 24 min read
“Too Much Science in the Curriculum”
Tragicomic scenes from reparations-based medicine.
Steve Salerno
· 18 min read
Rohmer at Camelot
Éric Rohmer’s Perceval le Gallois (1978) vividly recreates the imaginative world in which the people of the Middle Ages lived inside their heads.
Charlotte Allen
· 22 min read
A Paradoxical War
The American debate about the campaign against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Jeffrey Herf
· 19 min read
American Liberalism and Illiberalism
Americans who may have ferocious disagreements about the size of government, foreign policy, and a wide range of other issues must find a way to unite around their shared commitment to the liberal idea.
Matt Johnson
· 15 min read
Atlas No More
It is difficult to overstate just how reactionary Trump’s 2025 National Security Strategy is.
Brian Stewart
· 24 min read
Weimar Vibes
The fate of the Weimar Republic stands as a warning of what happens when societies and their citizens indulge extremism.
Shalom Lappin
· 18 min read