A collection of 209 posts
Sam Tanenhaus’s new biography of William F. Buckley provides a rich and nuanced portrait of one of the most consequential public intellectuals in modern American conservative politics.
How journalism exchanged the duty to inform for an ethic of customer satisfaction.
Operations Rising Lion and Midnight Hammer have been successful military operations, but a great deal of uncertainty remains.
The post-11 September wars set in motion political forces that constrained and undermined American power at the moment it was needed most.
Twenty years after his death, what Hunter S. Thompson’s legacy—or lack of it—tells us about literature and manhood in our current moment.
Seduction and submission in the work of the Marquis de Sade.
We devote a lot of resources to trying to equalise student outcomes, but under ideal learning conditions, individual differences in student achievement widen.
The post-Cold War democratic wave has receded and the free world now appears to be learning from authoritarian regimes instead of the other way around.
Israeli intelligence and the Hamas attack on 7 October 2023.
Instead of building the broadest possible coalition for his cause, Rufo is busy making enemies of potential allies.
Just six months after it was released by Netflix, Anna Kendrick’s feminist film about a real serial killer already looks like an ideological relic.
Éric Rohmer’s films demand patience and close attention, but they are immensely rewarding for those able to tolerate the absence of spectacle.
How the battle for the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act was fought, won, and nearly lost again.
My best friend had a psychotic break—our crisscrossing journeys through facts and fictions in thirteen chapters.
Clay Risen’s new book about the American “Red Scare” emphasises the injustices of anti-communism but minimises the true extent and danger of communist infiltration.