Boomer Wisdom
Younger generations may resent the boomers’ good fortune, but Dave Barry’s memoir suggests their real edge was simpler: laugh often, stay social, and remain curious about the world.
Books & Culture
Richard M. Weaver’s ‘Ideas Have Consequences’ at 75
'Man in this world cannot make his will his law without any regard to limits and to the fixed nature of things'
‘The Democrat Party Hates America’ is a Brutal Indictment of The Left
This book should awaken American patriots across the land
Sir Walter Scott’s ‘Waverley’ Inverse to Hollywood’s ‘Barbie’
You cannot get grownups to have a sober, rational conversation about any of our social and economic problems, because someone will pull the infantilizing trigger.
‘Anna Karenina’ Reveals Leo Tolstoy As a Great Thinker, First and Foremost
Some things you can’t take back, or unsay. Many years ago I told the wife of a friend that I really wanted to read Leo […]
A Trilogy of Meditations on AI and Art (Part Three)
The prior two installments of this trilogy of meditations on artificial intelligence (AI) and art mused upon the contrast between AI and artists’ imaginations, and […]
Katharine Hepburn, the Marble Goddess?
A new documentary of the Hollywood icon entertains and informs, but fails to capture Hepburn’s humanity.
Artificial Intelligence vs. Artists’ Works
The ultimate result for wholly AI products deemed by some to be “art works” is conformity and homogeneity.
No God, No Culture
When you drum all religious sensibility out of the public sphere, most of the classics of your own literary and artistic heritage must inevitably follow.
The Empty Indifference of ‘Black Mirror’
Neither here nor there, dabbling in pseudo-history with the purpose of advancing ideology, the new season of Netflix’s dystopian anthology series leaves the viewer feeling empty.
‘Catch a Crayfish, Count the Stars’: Steven Rinella’s First Children’s Book Is a Treasure for the Ages
Passing the guiding hands of the past through nature and yourself to the future of your family legacy: It's a beautiful thing.
A Trilogy of Meditations on AI and Art (Part One)
Artificial intelligence versus artists’ imagination: AI produces a derivative replication, not a unique creation.
The Ghosts of Postwar America
In Reagan’s film, “Night Unto Night,” as in most post-war American movies, an uneasiness about what the future may bring remains the only thing that’s certain.
A North Korean Perspective on Woke America
Park is blunt in what should count as China’s worst human rights violation: its ongoing support of the Kim regime.
Sixty Years On, Why the Kennedy Assassination Still Matters
James W. Douglass describes how, by 1963, JFK had made himself irredeemably odious to the dark powers of the intelligence community and the military-industrial complex.
The Voice of Ronald Reagan
In a way, Reagan did not see his political involvements as part of a “career” but as part of his duties as a citizen and actor.
IMDb Is Rigging Reviews for ‘The Little Mermaid’
You can alter the audience scores of a terrible movie, but it’s still a terrible movie.
Return to the Story
Stories are our way back into the possibilities of individual and collective imagination, no matter what happens.
Life of Python
John Cleese smacks down trans censorship.
The Right Sound of
Glenn Miller and James Stewart
In “The Glenn Miller Story,” we see the struggles of an artist trying to find the “right sound.”