Philip Guston in the padded room
After a controversial postponement, the Philip Guston retrospective has landed in Boston
Culture
Monday
Sinking into the pixels
We’re All Going to the World’s Fair is an important film about the internet
Ukraine in black and white
Recalling the moral clarity of Lillian Hellman’s The North Star
Arcade Fire: the last of the art-rockers?
The band’s return is not just welcome but overdue
The underrated Kenny Dorham
On the fiftieth anniversary of his death, it’s well worth revisiting his remarkable career
SoHo’s downtown drawings
Cultural mavens shouldn’t miss out on a knockout exhibition curated by Emily King
Wednesday
New York City wants to rename monkeypox because racism
Physician, heal thyself!
Saturday
Why can’t a woman be a man?
Pretending she can is destroying everything feminists worked for
Wednesday
Charlie Rose, comeback king
Hasn’t he spent long enough in time-out?
Thursday
Judge swats down Amber Heard’s demand for a mistrial
‘There is no evidence of fraud or wrongdoing’
Tuesday
No one wants to join the military anymore
Our elites’ culture war has targeted the very Americans who traditionally enlist
Monday
Bad-faith readings are damaging our discourse
No, a rep didn’t say she would kill her grandchildren to protect her guns
Thursday
The one-note wonder
The Museum of Modern Art is seeing red with Matisse
Playing the long game
Paul Cezanne is lighting fires with a new retrospective in Chicago
A concert begun in darkness
Remembering Rafael Schächter, a conductor imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp
How green is your Soylent?
A Seventies sci-fi thriller predicted dystopian eco-nightmare for 2022
Why did no one see The Northman?
The movie may be the last of its kind
Macbeth on Broadway: a Very Modern Scottish play
Daniel Craig whips through the Shakespeare tragedy in just over two hours
Monday
Michael Gerson’s descent into liberalism
The Washington Post’s in-house evangelical digs Pride Month and John Roberts
Sunday
The right to keep and bear fireworks
Our patriotic tradition of blowing things up must be protected
This great ungovernable country
Defiance of pointy-headed authority is in America’s very marrow
Thursday
The urban elite thinks they’re a victim class
They live to move in the worlds of affluence and activism
Tuesday
An American inquisition
Almost 500 years after Galileo, quasi-religious frenzies flow freely once again
Friday
The fall of feminism led to the fall of Roe
How pop-intersectionality destroyed abortion rights
Title IX reminds us that the cultural left will lose
Don’t bet on Lia Thomas in the arc of history long game
Wednesday
Salvador Ramos and our crisis of masculinity
What mass shooters need are proper male role models
Sunday
We need more Juneteenths
Anything that gets the federal government to stop ‘working’
Friday
Oberlin College pays the price for wokeness
The school smeared a bakery for racism. Then came the defamation suit
Thursday
The Satanic Temple comes to Boston
Devil worshippers for free speech? Not quite
