It’s now 250 years since America declared her independence and embarked on the experiment of fashioning a nation dedicated to ...

There have been ­many books written about the online right and the Trump movement, most by people who are, to put it mildly, ...

Who is our Odysseus? Or more precisely, who is the most ­Odyssean hero of American film? Matt Damon’s mopey trauma patient?

We wish that we could pass this play over, and say nothing about it. All that we can say must fall far short of the subject; or even of what we ourselves conceive of it.” So William Hazlitt, in ...

How would you write a public letter that you know will become front-page news? Would you write it yourself, or would you have a team of lawyers or a public relations firm write it for you? Or would ...

The mother of a fallen Ukrainian soldier cries into the crucified Christ depicted on her son’s burial shroud. It echoes the icons here at St. Mikhail Church, a short walk from central Kyiv. As the ...

Dolly Parton and Fulton Sheen seem to have had little in common. She favored rhinestones; he wore a pectoral cross (though both understood the dramatic possibilities of a cape). She sang “Jolene.” He ...

See now that I myself am he! There is no god besides me. I put to death and I bring to life, I have wounded and I will heal, and no one can deliver out of my hand. —Deuteronomy 32:39 In 1966, Philip ...

Shiva Naipaul (1945–1985) was the author of three novels and two books of mordant dispatches from places where civilization has the most tenuous hold, including Dar es Salaam, Lusaka, the Kenyan bush ...

Dario Amodei wants to give society time to deliberate about artificial intelligence. I am not qualified to judge the merits of the head of Anthropic’s proposal, made in his recent essay, “We Must Pace ...

Many years ago, I wrote a piece for this magazine called “Grim Tales.” At the time, I was a young mother rediscovering the world of children’s literature, deciding what to read to my daughter and what ...

In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Theodore Dalrymple joins in to discuss his recent book, Agatha Christie and the Metaphysics of Murder ...