Their images and videos became Exhibit A for the winning 2024 campaign of President Donald Trump and his loyal followers, as Democratic rival Kamala Harris struggled to steer her party toward a more centrist presentation. Younger and louder representatives of the Left’s farthest-flung fringes seemed unable to suspend their very public and performative shows of […]

It’s remarkable to watch Jon Hamm, a decade after the finale of Mad Men aired on May 17, 2015, navigate the treacherous waters of Post-Iconic-Role Syndrome that other actors have drowned in. While the ghosts of Harry Potter and James Bond haunt Daniel Radcliffe’s and Daniel Craig’s subsequent work, Hamm has somehow managed to acknowledge […]

Between 2009 and the beginning of last week, dramatist and author David Mamet released 16 new plays and books, some of them exceptional. During the same span, filmmaker David Mamet directed either one or zero feature-length pictures, depending on whether one counts the 2013 made-for-TV movie Phil Spector. To say merely that this imbalance saddened […]

In a world of grandstanding and gavels, David Souter was a whisper — a Granite State recluse who slipped onto the Supreme Court in 1990 like a shadow through a side door, only to leave an indelible mark on American law and the politics of judicial selection. Appointed by President George H.W. Bush, Souter, who […]