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It doesn’t take a conspiracy theorist to notice recurring cliques of prominent media personalities. Credit: Melissa Bender One night in 2019, around the time she wrote an article in New York Magazine accusing President Donald Trump of rape, the writer…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The word “content” is a workhorse of the digital era, referring to any form of culture or media pumped through the distribution tubes of the Internet, regardless of its medium. “Intellectual…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story When Jon Stewart announced that he would return to “The Daily Show” as a part-time host, the reaction among fans was split. The nostalgists were vindicated on Monday night: there was…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Did you really think that the Kansas City Chiefs were not going to win the Super Bowl? It’s true that they struggled offensively this season, and entered the playoffs as a…

Things may be bleak, but sometimes you just have to laugh. Credit: Getty Images/Mario Tama Did you know there was a whole genre out there of Joe Biden parody tunes? Most are quite professional, and riff off popular songs to…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Paul Valéry wrote that taste is made of a thousand distastes. Generally, it feels better to share the former than the latter, and toward the end of each year, when distributors…

Will the influx of blue state refugees into the heartland ruin the country or save it? American Refugees: The Untold Story of the Mass Exodus from Blue States to Red States, Roger L. Simon, Encounter Books, 232 pages America is…

Evangelicals withstood secularization better than the mainline denominations, but to thrive in the new America they will have to change their tactics. Credit: Alexey Fedorenko Life in the Negative World, by Aaron Renn, Zondervan Reflective, 205 pages. In February 2022,…

State of the Union: Swift may be more “based” than conservatives give her credit for. Credit: Brian Friedman A few weeks ago, I retweeted a post by conservative commentator Michael Knowles that read, “Taylor Swift is temperamentally conservative, and the…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story One unusually warm January afternoon, I arrived in Cauterets, a small spa town in the Pyrenees, in southwest France, to meet the Russian artist Andrei Molodkin. There was a scattering of…