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Before 2023 recedes too far in the past, conservatives should mark the centennial of the late Charlton Heston’s birth. Credit: Nationaal Archief Before 2023 recedes too far in the past, conservatives should mark the centennial of the late Charlton Heston’s…

The crisis of military readiness is a predictable result of the culture of liberalism. (Bumble Dee/Shutterstock) With a recruiting slogan like “Be All You Can Be,” it’s no wonder the Army is enduring a “Tik Tok Mutiny.” When the military—a…

Herman Melville understood both the horrors of slavery and the bonds between countrymen. Should he be canceled? Credit: Dominionart There is a theory of the ultimate fate of the universe, lesser known than the “The Big Bang,” referred to as…

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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In November, Ross McDonnell, the Irish filmmaker and photographer, died while swimming in the ocean at Fort Tilden beach, in Queens, New York. Ross was forty-four, a giant as a filmmaker…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The first time I became aware of the actress Talia Ryder was while watching the 2020 independent film “Never Rarely Sometimes Always.” In the movie, directed by Eliza Hittman, Ryder plays…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Amabel Holland, a forty-one-year-old board-game designer from Dearborn, Michigan, believes that a chance discovery at a comic-book store saved her life. In 2010, she wandered into the shop with her wife…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The theatre season of 2023 is, in some ways, a season of the past. Some of this year’s Broadway productions actually premièred downtown last year, like the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Fat Ham,”…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Hollywood movies have a problem with intellectual endeavor; just look at the thinly imagined inner lives of the titular protagonists of “Oppenheimer” and “Maestro.” But Ava DuVernay’s new movie, “Origin,” a…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In the winter of 2020, on one of my aimless, frigid quarantine walks around my silent neighborhood, I remember being struck by a thought: did a medieval European peasant know that…