6+ hour, 37+ min ago   (227+ words) A record number of American parents are finding that the most affordable “good school” is in their own home. “What I have absolutely f—ing had it with is watching some of the stupidest people I went to school with…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (209+ words) It’s not John Wayne’s Tinseltown anymore. I read something awful the other day, and it had to do with Hollywood. It seems a truly ghastly horror movie called Sinners earned all sorts of awards from an industry of such moral…...

1+ week, 8+ hour ago   (251+ words) Graffitists and modern architects alike are screaming into the void of mass culture. Once more on my way from the center of Paris to the airport, I marvelled at the sheer hideousness of almost everything built since the end of…...

1+ week, 9+ hour ago   (425+ words) The American Conservative Barbarism Begins at Home Can abortion opponents turn the tide against Massachusetts-style radicalism? Massachusetts’s Gov. Maura Healey on August 10 signed a new law giving doctors the prerogative to perform late-term abortions based on their own medical judgment…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (583+ words) President Trump’s Iran War leaves him politically exposed amid the affordability crisis. The Flying Burrito Brothers were a classic country rock band that was at its best in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Evidently, later configurations persisted for years afterward even…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (897+ words) The American Conservative The Cowboy Diplomacy of Dory Funk Jr. Funk was one of a kind—a wrestling champion who built bridges between America and postwar Japan. Dory Funk Jr.—pro wrestling champion, trainer, and international icon—died earlier this…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (331+ words) Biden’s open-border policies may have brought a plague of flesh-eating parasites to America’s southern border. Nobody knows exactly how the screwworm barrier failed. An array of contributing factors, including the growth of the livestock industry near Darién and power outages…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (262+ words) Today’s bandiers of obscenity could learn a thing or two from Greek. As an unfortunate birthday approaches, my movie director friend Michael Mailer asked what wish I’m about to make: “Keira and Lily, I’d even give them up for Americans…...

4+ week, 10+ hour ago   (233+ words) The dysfunctions of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act are coming home to roost. “This is not a race issue,” said even Hawaiian Republican party leaders as they denounced a local white resident's actions. But race is indeed the issue, and…...

4+ week, 9+ hour ago   (469+ words) What does the prevalence of tattoos mean in the era of mass culture? My interest in professional sport these days ranges from minimal to nil, but even I could not altogether avoid or evade the hysteria over the recent World…...