Eighty years later, World War Two is fading from historical memory
We’re losing touch with its lessons just as they struggled to commemorate the Civil War
Culture
Friday
Tuesday
James Corden suddenly remembers his wife has a food allergy
His ‘apology’ for abusing a server sounded more like an excuse
Monday
Does Taylor Swift have a drinking problem?
Her song lyrics suggest she is a wino
Sunday
Dawn party
The Whitney Museum is digging back to the dawn of American Modernism
A chronicler of enormities
Leonard Baskin was not to everyone’s taste, and the feeling was mutual
The heart of The Rings of Power
Amazon’s Tolkien adaptation does justice to the aesthetics as well as the ethics of his world
Is this Tom Stoppard’s last act?
If Leopoldstadt does not convince the theatergoing public, then what will?
At eighty, Casablanca embodies Hollywood high style
The movie still resonates with viewers even to this day
Monday
The Cuban Missile Crisis has become a cultural touchstone
Sixty years later, it’s still the closest we’ve ever come to nuclear war
Thursday
We deserve better than Candace Owens
She leans into controversy when it elevates her personally
Wednesday
What our progressive overclass has wrought
Confident and schooled in self-esteem, they seek to redeem the unredeemable
Tuesday
The left thinks social media is reality
Their learned helplessness rejects real democracy in favor of Twitter whining
Madonna comes out… as an attention seeker
Being straight is so last year
John Singer Sargent comes to Spain
The artist created his own synthetic Spanish vision
Kimono Style is more than just East-meets-West fashion
It is also a glimpse into a mystifying period of Japanese history
Bullet Train is an unabashedly manly palette cleanser
An action movie can be good or woke, but not both
Bodies Bodies Bodies cancels its characters to death
It’s a successful satire of cancel culture that never hectors or patronizes
A visit to Louis Armstrong’s old home
In any assessment of jazz’s founding fathers, he has to stand as the most influential figure
Weighing in on the unauthorized Hamilton
It was probably inevitable that the culture wars would come for the show
The deeply human Walking Dead
The show made us feel we could find light in that which set us apart from savagery
Monday
Republicans endorse Kanye as everyone else slowly backs away
‘I’m a bit sleepy tonight but when I wake up I’m going death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE’
Friday
Tucker Carlson grills Kanye West
‘When they see my disposition in this interview, it’s going to get scary’
Monday
A postcard from Portland
Lost in pathological compassion, much of the city is allied with ‘campers’ and criminals
Tuesday
How Catholics became the new WASPs
Once discriminated against, they’re now our best chance of upholding American ideals
Exhausted by America’s culture of fear
I’m not sure I should worry about our democracy so much as our sanity
Tuesday
The tyranny of the specialists
Government by experts is more arbitrary and unstable than we like to think
Monday
Tragedy strikes: Americans are smoking more weed than tobacco
Come home, America, to the product that made our country great
Sunday
Why women shouldn’t run in the dark
We have to take precautions because we live in a fallen world
Saturday
Growing up with 9/11
Will America ever be able to restore a sense of normalcy?
