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The book is better than the Yorgos Lanthimos movie

It is an act of vandalism that Poor Things, the Scottish polymath Alasdair Gray’s astonishing 1992 novel, even shares a title with Poor Things,...

True Detective freezes over

In its three previous outings, the HBO anthology series True Detective used police work to explore and defend masculine virtues. The show’s new season...

The ne’er-do-wells who built America

There’s a legend, most recently propagated in a song from the musical Hamilton, that upon surrendering at Yorktown, the British army played the tune “The World...

Lucy in the sky with the corporations, military contractors, and intelligence agencies that created psychedelics

The famous Dupont slogan “Better Living Through Chemistry” was never intended to apply to drug use, but as Benjamin Breen explains in Tripping on...

Leading light-haired ladies

Among all the available definitions of cinema, few are at once truer and more politically incorrect than the one offered by Jean-Luc Godard. “The...

A conversation among veterans with Gov. Ron DeSantis

There have been great presidents who never did any soldiering, of course, but there has never been this long a run of American commanders...

Democrats rashly ignore political problems among their own usual voters

BOONE COUNTY, West Virginia — Not many people in the national press were paying attention to the Democratic presidential primary results in West Virginia...

Jerome Powell cannot and will not save Joe Biden’s reelection odds

Although President Joe Biden has so far adhered to his promise to respect the independence of the Federal Reserve, fellow Democrats continue to refuse...

Jon Stewart won’t save ‘The Daily Show’ from irrelevance

Once upon a time on Comedy Central, Jon Stewart was seen as more honest than the most milquetoast anchor on cable news. The host of...

Housing now unaffordable for a record half of all renters thanks to Bidenomics

People are divided into two economies right now. For the elite, defined as those living in urban areas with a postgraduate degree making at...
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