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Free Speech First at Texas State University

State of the Union: A recent lawsuit against Texas State University highlights the importance of defending free speech across the nation.  Photo by Nick Schnelle for The Washington Post via Getty Images Texas State University has recently come under scrutiny…

Roz Chast’s “Bird Bath”

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Roz Chast chose to portray a chicken in a bath for the January 29, 2024, cover for a very simple reason: she likes birds. She also happens to be quite a…

Ava DuVernay Wants to Build a New System

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Richard Brody, whose writing about movies runs under the rubric The Front Row, never ceases to surprise me, and enlighten me, with his critical judgment. Like another colleague, Anthony Lane, he…

Portrait of the Artist as an Office Drone

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In the opening pages of “Private Equity,” a memoir about working in high finance in the early twenty-tens, the author, Carrie Sun, is asked in a job interview why she wants…

Nineteenth-Century Clickbait

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Why Are We Marching for Life After Dobbs?

Why we continue to gather in Washington— for the sake of constitutional justice and a righteous political order. 113018453@N05/24173637379/in/dateposted-public/”> Credit: Alateia Image Department The March for Life takes place in Washington, D.C. today. Americans from across the country will be…

How Ava DuVernay Restages History in “Origin”

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Ava DuVernay’s sprawling film “Origin,” an adaptation of the journalist and historian Isabel Wilkerson’s book “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents,” spans the globe and bounces through time to illustrate its…

Compagnie Hervé Koubi Renders Movement Into Poetry

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Alex BaraschCulture editor You’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week. Sign up to receive it in your in-box. This winter…

Abortionists Capitalize on Prop 1 in California

How D.C.’s DuPont Clinic stands to gain clients by pushing the late term abortion debate. Credit: BluIz60 Pink lights lit up the Beverly Hills, California city hall on the June night Roe v. Wade was overturned. The wealthy Los Angeles…