The Nauseous Canary Attends the Premiere of ‘Be Our Guest’
Come on in, folks. Take a selfie. What’s the worst that could happen?
Books & Culture
‘Squid Game’ Unveils the Reality of South Korea and the Frightening Alternative
The irony in Squid Game’s success is that it flips the script on the narrative of South Korea’s cultural influence.
PBS, DNA, and the Truth About America
“Finding Your Roots” is not entirely accurate or inclusive.
Erasing Humanity in the Quest for Power
James Whale’s 1933 film adaptation of “The Invisible Man” is a powerful reminder of how much we need to see our own humanity to be fully human.
Fall TV Guide
If only comics and satirists had the courage of Dave Chappelle.
Art Under Peer Pressure
If Jasper Johns can be said to have “redefined the art of our time,” it is because of the steady pressure that the growing embrace and exaltation of his work has exerted on contemporary taste.
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
“The Way Back” will enable you to understand by experience the self-evidence of the founders’ truth.
Happy Birthday, P.G. Wodehouse!
Wodehouse never needed to point out that “simile” and “I smile” are anagrams. His writing, all sweetness and light, did that for him.
Post-Truth, Social Justice, and the Trans-American Way
The history of Superman is strong because it is simple. Less simple is the will to resist those who would modernize history to the point of absurdity.
Can James Bond Survive Self-Sabotage?
“No Time to Die” feels like a movie intended to kill off not just Daniel Craig but the whole Bond franchise.
The Political Philosophy of Anti-Woke Science Fiction
The literary elite doesn’t like to admit anti-Marxism as a motivation for great literature. But it is. “Lethe” is a new example of the genre.
What Our Universities Have Wrought
Abramson’s achievement is to show that trust in the neutral institutions that adjudicate knowledge has collapsed, and to adroitly locate our universities at the center of this calamity.
The Nevergreen That the Woke Would Prefer Never Seen
Nevergreen is a metaphor for academia’s self-separation, and the scene for a darkly comic escape thriller.
The Courage To Be Good
Only the strength of the human spirit and God can lead us out of any totalitarian system’s cruel labyrinth.
The Nauseous Canary Honors a Fallen American Patriot
A casualty of a foolish and misguided administration.
An American Soul
The central mission of Harry Jaffa’s life was the philosophical and rhetorical defense of classical natural right, the Western tradition, and the United States.
A History of Totalitarian Surrealism
Man ceases to be human once he accepts a metaphysical takeover by ideology.
Video: The Mask Came Back
Miss Hamner had a mask she didn’t want to wear. She liked to fill her lungs with unfiltered COVID air . . .
The Final Victory of Fun
In ages past, we could make literature, propaganda, and art out of butchering history. But now we can make a joke of it.
Catch Me If You Can
What drives Bastašić’s often tender exploration of the unreliability of memory and friendship, is a sense of loss. There is nothing saccharine about this journey.