Category Culture

In “Nuisance Bear,” the bears share space with the people who’ve come to see them, walking cautiously between parked vehicles, being watched and watching back. What’s a nature program without narration? The genre relies heavily on voice-overs to bridge the…

The Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan and James McNeill Whistler, National Gallery of Art, until October 10, 2022 The partnership between Joanna Hiffernan (1839–1886) and James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903) in the first decade of the painter’s career created some of…

In the late twentieth century, the American psychic Jeane Dixon, nicknamed the Seeress of Washington, won a huge following after predicting, in a 1956 magazine article, that a man resembling John F. Kennedy would be elected President four years later—and…

We are living in an age of red-carpet ubiquity. Lately, the question of who will wear what on which award show step-and-repeat has become nearly as common as the question of who will take home a trophy. (The sixty-year-old Michelle…

Of all the disturbing scenes in “Tár,” Todd Field’s movie about the downfall of a world-famous conductor, I was most haunted by a frame of the titular character laughing. Lydia Tár (Cate Blanchett) is driving a young cellist named Olga…

Modern people simply suffer from a lack of time, so there is little time for leisure. But what to do if you want to go out, for example, to go to the cinema, but you are constantly busy? There is…

A woman, as it turns out, is actually a very difficult thing to define. Contra savvy conservative pundits, the meaning doesn’t just evade gender studies majors at Harvard but also straight white men, middle class women, and backwoods hillbillies. And…

Under Elon Musk’s chaotic first month of ownership, Twitter has seen twin exoduses. Last Wednesday, having already slashed nearly half of his staff, Musk abruptly e-mailed remaining employees an ultimatum: either stay at the company and commit to being “hardcore,”…

You may have noticed things look a bit different around here. Welcome to The American Conservative’s new website. For twenty years, TAC has been getting it right. As the American right was lining up to support a disastrous regime change…

If written today, “In Search of Lost Time” might well be an Internet novel. The Web has become the first port of call in any search for what we’ve once seen or even felt. It’s our externalized memory—in the never-fading…