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Woolf’s depiction of these inner rhythms would be refined in the novels that followed—To the Lighthouse and The Waves—but Dalloway was the true birth of this form.
Amis is in love with English, and the marriage is a healthy one.
Embery offers a plan to implement his vision of a well ordered and prosperous country that values its conservative Somewhere members as much as its Anywhere cultural and economic elite.
Freak Power is a fascinating look into the heart of a grassroots political campaign during a violent era in American history, as one man channelled the rage and confusion of a maligned subculture into a surprisingly coherent and subversive political movement.
Why did anyone ever believe Jim Garrison or allow him to ruin the life of an entirely innocent man?
The book explains a half-century arc of intellectual history culminating in our current state of histrionic overreach in the name of social justice.
Tarantino is quintessentially American. He lets us linger and watch Tate in all her Technicolor radiance. He lets us love her. What’s more, he lets her watch and love herself.
The sordid and shameful history of eugenics in the U.S. should be better known, as should the role of another prominent American institution that was central to the development of eugenics ideology.
If you haven’t seen Endgame yet—or if you take comfort in the delusion that Marvel is “woke”—stop reading now.
Biologists have lately awoken to the news that their science makes them heretics in the postmodern imperium, and guilty of retailing the ideas most heretical to the progressive, constructivist, utopian-egalitarian worldview.
There is far more expression to be found in the Easter Island heads, than there is here.
The Republican running the session effortlessly fools the group into accepting facts that the audience (of smart liberals, of course) know to be lies.
I could bang on about offendotrons every week and have to resist the impulse.
What is Islam and how does it differ from Islamism? And is this a hard and fast distinction for the majority of Muslims?
How many people are in this “community”? What power do they enjoy? What is the extent of their influence?