Deplorables’ Troubadour
Merle Haggard sang the American working-man blues.
Arts and Culture
It’s Only Rock and Roll
Rock and Roll is dead.
Worlds Without End
Marvel comics, quantum physics, and the secrets of the cosmos.
The Road to Dubai
The United Arab Emirates’ liberal authoritarianism.
Everyone Deserves a Granite Countertop
Fantastically rich but morally impoverished American cities are committing slow-motion suicide.
Eros and Civilization
By recovering a true anthropology, we can begin to clothe the self in the dignity of reality once more.
You Could Look It Up
A well-made index can be a great aid helping us “arrive swiftly but unruffled at the passage—the quotation, the datum, the knowledge—we need.”
Digital Disaster
The crucial task before us is to remain human, recovering a sense of ourselves as God-created beings whose virtue and flourishing is non-negotiable.
The City and Man
A dispatch from Seaside, Florida.
A Glorious Leveling Up
Spielberg’s West Side Story is a masterpiece based on a masterpiece.
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.
