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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Alex BaraschCulture editor You’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week. Sign up to receive it in your in-box. This winter…

How D.C.’s DuPont Clinic stands to gain clients by pushing the late term abortion debate. Credit: BluIz60 Pink lights lit up the Beverly Hills, California city hall on the June night Roe v. Wade was overturned. The wealthy Los Angeles…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story It has been a while since Francis Ford Coppola made a new feature—and a very long while since he made his greatest ones. (I’m hoping that his forthcoming “Megalopolis” proves to…

State of the Union: Even the Davoisie reap what they sow. The Heritage Foundation’s President Dr. Kevin Roberts has been going viral alongside Argentinian President Javier Milei for making pointed comments at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Roberts and…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story If you were listening to rock radio in the early nineteen-nineties, you might have heard a song called “Sober,” which reflected the genre’s new mood. In the wake of Nirvana’s success,…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story There are films that, by the force of style, get their ideas onto the screen as if the images came from as deep within the filmmakers themselves as do their voices.…

A movie produced by the former president tries and fails to grasp the consequences of American empire. Credit: John Gress Media Inc Before alien invasion stories, there were just invasion stories. At the height of the British Empire, the British…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In 1886, Leo Tolstoy published a short story called “How Much Land Does a Man Need?” Its protagonist, a poor farmer named Pahóm, dreams of becoming a landowner. He thinks, “If…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Alex BaraschCulture editor You’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week. Sign up to receive it in your in-box. If your…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading the Food Scene newsletter, Helen Rosner’s guide to what, where, and how to eat. Sign up to receive it in your in-box. As with pizza, barbecue, and other archetypal American…