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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…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story “Welcome, queer babies, to this reverse-conversion-therapy session! Our goal this evening is to make you queer.” It was a Tuesday night at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and the playwright and…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The forty-year-old musician Chelsea Wolfe has roots in folk and country, but her music is imbued with the sonic weight of doom metal, with sludgy guitars and droning bass notes that…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Robert Cumming, a pioneering wizard of West Coast photo-conceptualism, died in 2021, at the age of seventy-eight. He achieved brief semi-stardom in the nineteen-eighties, when he mounted solo exhibitions at both…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story “In the Know,” a new stop-motion comedy series on Peacock from Zach Woods, Brandon Gardner, and Mike Judge, begins with sounds familiar to any NPR listener: thoughtful hmm-ing, the performance of…

“Equity” and mendacity could go hand in hand when there are political points to be scored. Credit: gabriel12 In the last month, a Japanese airplane burst into flames on the tarmac after colliding with an American aircraft, a panel blew…