For the sequel to a beloved working-girl comedy, nobody remembered to find a plot. Lauren Weisberger’s novel The Devil Wears Prada became a cultural milestone […]
Gary Stewart: The Unapologetic Honky-Tonk Outlaw Who Defined Country Music
A groundbreaking biography, Gary Stewart: I Am From the Honky Tonks by Jimmy McDonough, uncovers the life of Gary Stewart, a 1970s country singer whose […]
Two Decades of Mystery: The Cave Mountain Disappearance and the 1978 Cult Murder That Bind an Ozarks Backwater
In 2001, six-year-old Haley Zega got lost on a family hike in the Arkansas wilderness. She was found after three days where she survived drinking […]
The Michael Jackson Biopic: A Deliberate Erasure of Truth
The new film chronicling Michael Jackson’s life from age 8 to 24 presents a sanitized narrative devoid of significant controversy. Its structure functions as a […]
Bernie Sanders’ Vermont Roots: The Unlikely Path to National Political Power
Dan Chiasson’s Bernie For Burlington: The Rise of the People’s Politician offers a meticulously researched account of Bernie Sanders’ formative years in Vermont. Chiasson, a […]
Stephen Sondheim: The Art of Unattainable Mastery
Despite his work often featuring disturbing subjects and lyrics that are difficult to sing, composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim was notably reserved in acknowledging his influences. A […]
George Downing: The 17th-Century Spy Who Shaped Modern Britain
Today, Sir George Downing is remembered, if at all, for the street and row of brick houses in London that bear his name. This address—the […]
U.S. Universities’ Moral Collapse Exposed: Elise Stefanik’s ‘Poisoned Ivies’ Reveals Campus Failures
Congresswoman Elise Stefanik’s viral congressional hearing—where she questioned university presidents about whether advocating for the genocide of Jews violated campus policies and received responses that […]
The Desecration of Humanity: How Modern Culture Has Shattered Moral Boundaries
In this compact, highly readable book treating issues about which he has also written elsewhere, Carl Trueman examines how it is that, at least on […]
Digital Tyranny: The Invisible Power Structure Shaping Our Reality
George Orwell’s 1946 essay “The Prevention of Literature” distinguishes between two types of attackers of intellectual freedom: theoretical enemies (the apologists of totalitarianism) and practical […]