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Proust died at fifty-one, in Paris, of pneumonia, on November 18th, and last year was the centenary of his death. Since I first read “In Search of Lost Time,” his immense and unique autobiographical novel, a long passage about what…

The following is adapted from remarks delivered at the Life in America After Roe conference, co-hosted by The American Conservative and Belmont Abbey College on September 20, 2022. As we discuss family policy, and mean by that how we can…

When Steven Soderbergh announced, in 2011, that he was about to retire from movies and devote himself to painting, I didn’t believe it. Not that I considered him deceitful; rather, I thought, judging from the evidence onscreen, that he loved…

How to walk properly, according to Lorraine O’Grady, the eighty-eight-year-old conceptual and performance artist: “With your chin tucked under your head, your shoulders dropped down, your stomach pulled up.” Good posture has become a concern for O’Grady in the past…

LIV Golf, the first serious challenge to the PGA’s monopoly on professional golf, has drawn the media’s ire for its Saudi investors. The firestorm has involved the same feigned hysteria the American public endures in each news cycle. If you’re…

Grammy Award-winning rap and pop artist Lizzo had a surprise guest appearance at her concert in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday night.  No, it wasn’t rappers Cardi B or Missy Elliot—it was President James Madison’s 200 year old crystal flute. Video…

In the fall of 2015, I moved from Brooklyn to Vermont for a month to try to write something new. I had spent four years working on a novel—four years covering cocktail napkins with notes about the tiniest interpersonal dynamics…

Spoiler alert: the climactic event of “Knock at the Cabin” is a book burning. I’ll spare you the details, but suffice it to say that, lest anyone deem Hollywood a solid front of liberal messaging, this new film by M.…

You may have seen the recent meme involving the phrase “the feminine urge to,” followed by some pithy example of melancholy or chaotic behavior. “The feminine urge to stop replying to texts and sit in solitude for months at a…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In 2003, Ken Jennings was a twenty-nine-year-old software engineer, living in a suburb of Salt Lake City with his wife and young son, when his old college roommate suggested that they…