September 17, 2018

On the joys of a cheap amusement park.

Street artist Sabo may just be ‘some guy who lives in some dump,’ but he is taking on and taking down the likes of Jimmy Kimmel and Meryl Streep

Tehran’s growing influence in Iraq is no accident, newly declassified interrogation transcripts show

I’ve decided not to seek reelection.” These words are spoken far too seldom in American politics, but few have spoken them with better reason than Rahm Emanuel. In his nearly eight years as Chicago’s mayor, he has failed by almost any metric.

“Cancel Brett Kavanaugh,” they reasoned.

One of the most revealing moments in the Senate hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kava­naugh involved Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.). He said Republican justices overwhelmingly side with corporations and right-wing interests in cases before the High Court. And so does Kava­naugh in his votes on…

It’s stupider than you can imagine.

Betsy DeVos undoes a major campus injustice.

How de Gaulle turned himself into a symbol.

James M. Banner Jr. reviews Joanne B. Freeman’s book on violence and bloodshed in the antebellum Congress.

Katrina Gulliver reviews ‘The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World’ by Sarah Weinman

Christine Rosen on the high fashion and low blows in ‘When Life Gives You Lululemons’

Tom Clancy’s hero returns in a new Amazon series, but with less geeky charm. Nicholas H. Loya explains.

On August 30, the New Orleans Times-Picayune ran an unsigned editorial criticizing an editorial the same paper ran a century before. The offending piece: “Jass and Jassism,” a denunciation of jazz music published in 1918. “Why is the jass music, and, therefore, the jass band?” New Orleans’s paper…

We live in an age of hyper-trivial faux-controversies, almost all of them generated (if we speak just a little uncharitably) by overeducated progressives and left-wing politicos. If you follow politics on Twitter, you’ll encounter so many of these moronic spats that you may be tempted to despair of…

Virginia GOP Senate nominee Corey Stewart is one of Donald Trump’s most consistent and fervent supporters. The native Minnesotan is known for his sympathy for conspiracy theories and for his flirtations with the “alt right.” Conservatives in Virginia have watched with amazement as Stewart cheers…

Sally Rooney is a young Marxist novelist from Ireland, the author of Conversations with Friends, a celebrated debut novel. She has just published a second novel, Normal People, and already it’s a bestseller. Both are being adapted for the big screen. Rooney is among the most successful millennial…

Colin Kaepernick, the former quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, has signed a deal with Nike in which he will appear in some of the company’s “Just Do It” advertisements. Kaepernick of course pioneered the practice of protesting racial injustice by kneeling during the national anthem. The…

This spring, not long after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, the Department of Education released a report showing that during the 2015-2016 school year there were an astounding 240 school shootings. The figure has been repeated endlessly by gun control activists and…