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Chilling at college
In the autumn I started classes at the Princeton Theological Seminary. It’s a late-in-life transition from my work as a television writer and producer to graduate student…
December 11, 2024
Inside Washington Examiner magazine: Biden crime family, Hunter Biden pardon, Joe Biden as Jimmy Carter, Trump's Day One, assisted suicide in the Uk.
Entertainment
Adapting troubled history: Review of Say Nothing on Hulu
In 2018 the journalist Patrick Radden Keefe, a writer at the New Yorker who is particularly adept at using true crime as a vehicle for probing intellectual…
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The Didion vibes economy
At one point, Joan Didion was a writer, known for her books and essays, which people read and liked — or didn’t. There was The White Album,…
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The myth of Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe has long been regarded as a true master of German literature. While few anglophone readers today are familiar with Goethe’s entire body of…
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A new purpose in a new service
Soldiers, sailors, Marines, airmen, and Guardians are all service members. We may focus on them storming a beach or driving a tank or soaring the skies in…
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New York’s finest: Review of <i>A Town Without Time</i> by Gay Talese
“New York is a city of things unnoticed,” declares Gay Talese at the beginning of A Town Without Time, the new collection of his journalistic work centered…
Entertainment
The film with no audience: Review of Clint Eastwood’s <i>Juror #2</i>
No living American filmmaker can be plausibly said to have undergone such a profound artistic evolution as Clint Eastwood. From a greenhorn starring in Rawhide to an…
Entertainment
Why the Dune TV show failed at where the Dune film franchise succeeded
Dune: Prophecy, HBO’s prequel series to the blockbuster films of the same name, opens with a quasi-cryptic epigraph about war set against an abstract, smoky monochrome backdrop…
Columnists
It is becoming impossible to win a second term
Now, it is France’s turn. French Prime Minister Michel Barnier’s government has fallen in a confidence vote after just 90 days, triggering a political crisis and calls…