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Last week, Lyman Stone wrote an op-ed for the New York Times about how the population bust is coming sooner than people realize: There are two major...
I’ve questioned the determination in some quarters to hate on Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey before seeing it. Much of this corner of the...
At the very beginning of the 2016 cycle, I was asked by a magazine if I wanted to profile Lindsey Graham. They thought it would be fun to assign a...
As if to make their cheerleaders choke on all their words, the new government of Hungary, led by Péter Magyar, used its constitution-shaping majority...
In an act of lip-curling intransigence and futile defiance of Nature and Nature’s God, the United States House of Representatives voted to make...
The Bear is a drama on FX about a top-tier chef coming home to his grief-stricken family to take over and ultimately transform the beef sandwich shop...
I think Christopher Nolan is a brilliant filmmaker, and especially gifted on the technical side of the ledger. A lot of influencers and accounts on...
From his lecture series “The Face of God”: Only that which is sacred can be desecrated. Hence the habitual desecration of death and sexual love...
Iran’s defiance and skirting around the peace deal that was talked up in recent weeks, and its firing on U.S. vessels in the strait is an outrage...
On Anthony Bourdain's show about travel and food, Parts Unknown, I liked that he was an old-fashioned kind of liberal, one who would make room...
Readers know my preoccupation with fertility rates and population decline. If, as conservatives, our political and social project is an appreciation...
The Society of Saint Pius X went ahead and ordained four bishops without a papal mandate, reprising the events of 1988. The Vatican, in turn, has...
I’ve been reading Eamon Duffy’s excellent collection of historical and biographical essays, Reformation Divided, which takes a very long and...
I’ve started an informal list of American things that European and other World Cup tourists have professed their love for in America: free refills,...
Maybe Christmas is the king of romantic holidays. It seems like half the “holiday” songs are torch songs, or at least ones that are lovesick. But...
The 1994 World Cup, hosted by the United States, was a pivotal moment in the development of interest in soccer in America. It built momentum for the...
Pope Leo has written to the leaders of the Society of Saint Pius X, the traditionalist fraternity of priests founded by French Archbishop Marcel...
Last night, American World Cup broadcasters insisted on calling Turkey, as I have always known that country to be called, “Türkiye” (rhymes with...
Congress could just let the housing legislation come into effect and throw their own party and media availability for it. Trump has said he won’t...
Ambrose Evans Pritchard picks apart the economic case that has been launched to criticize Brexit and fertilize the ground for a case to rejoin the EU....
Over at Unherd, Poppy Sowerby defends American excess: If all the intrepid fans making their way to the home of the brave have to cling on to is some...
Tom Cruise is so determined to entertain big-screen audiences that now every single film release of his is billed as an “event.” The release of a...
Last week the Supreme Court declined to take up a challenge to the Trump administration’s Section 301 tariffs on China. These are used against...
There was a report in the Wall Street Journal last week about a diet that is sweeping through the White House, from RFK Jr. to Vice President Vance,...
Over at Unherd there is a wonderful piece on “The Obama Carbuncle” — the hideous presidential library that has been constructed in Chicago to...
https://x.com/SohrabAhmari/status/2066291987892871659?s=20 I do. It's almost by accident. I have a few friends who were devoted supporters of...
Last summer, researchers at Apple released a very important research paper, “The Illusion of Thinking, Understanding the Strengths and Limitations...
Allison Pearson, self-described “libertarian at heart,” writes a surprisingly impassioned defense of the U.K.’s proposed smartphone ban for...
The extremism of the reaction to an announced "memorandum of understanding" between the U.S. and Iran has been something to watch. Rumors of...
Over on a homepage filled with dread about the new Iran peace deal, I have a piece about recreational baseball, the kind sponsored in my area by local...
It’s astonishing that Irish and British commentators are trying to hold on to these old familiar tunes. "Very poor white people” are being...
It’s astonishing to consider that Mexico is hosting 13 World Cup games, sharing host duties with the U.S. Estadio Azteca in Mexico City will host...
“I love it” said President Trump when asked by reporters about inflation hitting a three-year high, “the numbers were great.” Reports The...
Aris Roussinos, who has been living in Belfast for some time, says that the normal sectarian divisions are still the structural and social...
Ambrose Evans Pritchard thinks the markets, lifted by AI mania, are about to crash into a series of simple constraints. We simply don’t have the...
Charles posted earlier about the horrific crime in Northern Ireland where a Sudanese migrant nearly beheaded a local. The viral video of the appalling...
A couple of news stories that establish an ominous pattern if you're reading the prospects for Ukraine. From Politico Europe: Polish President...
South Korea has been the poster child for worldwide terminal fertility rates. Rates are going down, pretty fast, everywhere and they’ve been doing...
I missed it last week, but the Wall Street Journal had a nice column explaining the felt “squeeze” in a middle class that is earning more than...
You might have missed it, but someone else decided to fire a hail of bullets at the White House. Freddy Gray writes in The Spectator on America’s...
Spencer Pratt has done a lot of work calling out Los Angeles government for its failures in the wildfires that devastated Altadena and Pasadena...
The Vatican has released the results of its synodal sessions. It’s one of these weird mystery documents the church puts out that is so in love with...
Fender, the famous guitar maker, has recently won a case in Germany that its Stratocaster style of body is a work of art that can be copyrighted. The...
Go and read Armond White on the weird compelling satirical style of Spencer Pratt’s ads in the Los Angeles mayoral race. The Real ‘Flight 93’...
The Washington Post reports that the House GOP is resurrecting the Sunshine Protection Act. The law would allow states to switch to permanent daylight...
In the continuing fallout from the short, unflashy summit between President Donald Trump and Chairman Xi Jinping, Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te...
I’m often the first to defend struggling Millennials and Gen Zers. Housing really is harder to achieve now than it was for Boomers. And I don’t...
People can go broke predicting collapse in places they don’t understand. But, it is harder and harder to look at China and not see a state and...
Stephen Colbert hosted all the other hosts of late night programs — or at least shows he considers his peers, because he included John Oliver, who...
David McWilliams argues that Ireland, blessed with an annual avalanche of multinational tax revenue, ends up being the worst-run country in Europe:...
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