Beauty, terror and banality are uneasily juxtaposed in Harmony
During a time of monstrous persecution, there was a band dedicated to joy that consisted of Jews and Gentiles
Culture
Tuesday
The frustrating promise of infinite freedom in video games
For a game to work, it has to reach a complex balance of systems and narratives
How does the global art market move?
Since its launch in 2017, Convelio has become the leading technology-led art shipment company in the world
Wednesday
Why is everyone getting bad plastic surgery?
Society’s obsession with anti-aging is reaching its peak
Thursday
Are we sick of Taylor Swift yet?
The pop star’s Golden Globes appearance might’ve been the last straw
Thursday
Kids with conservative parents are happier
A Gallup poll reveals politics plays a big part in the mental health of your children
Wednesday
Will ‘accessibility’ ruin ballet?
In the most exquisitely beautiful —and painful — art form, elitism is the show
Jerry Miller’s tale
Moby Grape could have been a contender but never quite were
The bold new vision for Edinburgh’s National Galleries of Scotland
The galleries are not only an aesthetic pleasure to visit but a fine and salutary reminder of the greatness of Scottish art
Radical in the Rotunda
With a presidential election this year, it is time to contemplate the iconic work of John Trumbull afresh
Tuesday
Our culture of cheapness and vulgarity
The world deserves better than this moment of seemingly endless cultural drek
Thursday
The Washington Post’s assault on homeschooling
Is the media covering for teacher’s unions again?
Wednesday
Morgan Wallen bests the mob, again
The country superstar keeps outshining his loudest critics
Wednesday
Cancel culture comes for two new victims
A comedian and a young Chiefs fan face the mob’s brutality
Wednesday
The trans genocide that wasn’t
The White House ‘grieves’ over transgender attempted murderer
Wednesday
Why does the left hate white women?
The NYT rips an innocent food blogger to shreds
Tuesday
The birth, death and rebirth of American Psycho: The Musical
In the year 2023, improbably as always, the musical proved a success
Have we misunderstood David Fincher?
The director’s continuing ability to challenge, provoke and entertain is a marvel
Comic Con with a Shakespearean twist
‘Even when the story is dark, Superman still stands for something — and we need more good guys like that’
Wednesday
The New York Times for Kids is lying again
The Halloween edition fearmongers about GOP-led ‘book bans’
Thursday
Pop star desecrates church for music video
Sabrina Carpenter shakes her bare butt on the altar
Wednesday
What’s missing in America
A Moroccan honeymoon reminds me of the values that once made us great
Friday
The great Marty Stuart, possessor of one of popular music’s legendary guitars
He stands five-foot-seven in his stocking feet, but with Clarence White’s Telecaster slung around his neck, he looks ten feet tall
Age is catching up with our much-beloved musicians
In our increasingly secular age, we worship rock stars as our deities, as figures who inspire our hopes and dreams and fantasies of excess
George Harrison at eighty
Of the four Beatles, Harrison was the most attuned to, and wary of, the mania side of Beatlemania
John Waters, the pope of cliché
Cinema’s pet subversive deserves a proper reappraisal
Understanding museum theft with best-selling author Kirk Wallace Johnson
There is, inevitably, a feeling of embarrassment and shame that emanates from institutions after they have been robbed
Wednesday
I’M MARRIED!
Don’t listen to the naysayers, marriage is still cool
Thursday
Spooky season’s religious revival
This year’s horror movies lean on supernatural evils
