A Glorious Leveling Up
Spielberg’s West Side Story is a masterpiece based on a masterpiece.
Arts and Culture
This Is the Business We’ve Chosen
Seal details the various crises and comedies that dogged the creation of the Godfather.
Plutarch Without Parallel
The ancient world’s first man of letters.
Dare We Joke About the Woke?
The satirical Netflix series The Chair is not sharp enough to draw blood.
God in Translation
Encountering the Word.
Thrown Out at Home
America moves on from baseball.
Faerie Godfather
The Faerie Queene is a continuous practice of thinking about aesthetic, moral, and philosophical issues.
Art House
Should an art museum teach, and if so, how and what? Should it entertain? Is it a community center?
Souls on Wheels
The film Nomadland expands the scope and meaning of the book that inspired it.
Family Matters
There is no greater threat to young people’s intellectual development and personal integrity than the progressive ideology dominating schools.
They’re Not Lovin’ It
Are America’s cultural exports worse than junk food?
On Taste
How do we know whether art is any good?