Weaponize Art!

Our May 15 issue—the Art Issue—is now online, with Susan Tallman on warp and weft, Ingrid D. Rowland on Vitruvius, Jerome Groopman on antivaccine lunacy, Martin Filler on the new Frick, Julian Bell on art in an age of crisis, Lisa Halliday on Claire Messud, Heather O’Donnell on the […]

Health and Human Disservices

Sponsored by Sonoma Valley Authors Festival Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Kennedy has for years been one of the most prominent vaccination skeptics in the United States. As Jerome Groopman documents in the Review’s May 15 issue, he has campaigned against mandates—calling the […]

Trump’s Russia–Ukraine Diplomacy Is Working

View this email in your browser READ ON SITE NOW The Russian President Vladimir Putin’s sudden announcement last Saturday of a unilateral Easter truce in Ukraine seems to have opened a new path to peace. That’s somewhat surprising, considering Putin’s promise initially met extreme skepticism. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky suggested […]

The Future is not Trad

If we want to revitalise culture we have to address the attachment traditionalists have to forms and style Alexander Adams Apr 21, 2025 [Alexander Adams, untitled (c. 2001), oil on linen, 16” x 16”] Since I began publishing statements and articles, I have defended many forms of art. […]

Parental Opt-Outs for Controversial Books

Parental Opt-Outs for Controversial Books Plus: Cornell’s cancel culture case, Trump’s immigration policy approval ratings, and more… LIZ WOLFE Book battles come to the Supreme Court: Mahmoud v. Taylor is before the Court this week, dealing with the Montgomery County Board of Education, which took away both parental notice and opt-outs […]

Conservative Hatred of Civil Liberties

THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 2025 [E]very good and excellent thing stands moment by moment on the razor edge of danger and must be fought for…. – Thornton Wilder HORNBERGER’S BLOG April 24, 2025 Conservative Hatred of Civil Liberties Ever since the 1960s, when conservatives became convinced that the procedural protections […]

China, Soft Power, and Film

Global Impact: The Case of Film by Sijia Yao Over the past several decades, America’s Hollywood as a cinematic and entertainment industry has emerged and maintained a successful model of cultural globalization. In the past two decades, Hanliu or the Korean Wave, which first gained popularity in East […]

Teutonic Takeover

What the Chilean presidential election tells us about Germans in South America Andrew Cusack Mar 10, 2025 What is going on in Chile? They’re having a presidential election later this year, and the latest poll figures are out. The top three candidates are all right-wingers descended from German […]

4/24/25: China Shuts Down Trump, Young Men Bail On MAGA, ICE Detains US Citizen, Peterson On Rogan

Krystal and Saagar discuss China shuts down Trump tariff offer, Trump reverses on America First, Trump loses young male approval, Trump begs Putin to stop bombing Ukraine, Jordan Peterson lectures Rogan on antisemitism, ICE detains US citizen for ten days, Bernie endorses Michigan Senate candidate.  Timestamps: (00:00)Intro (2:44)China […]

4/23/25: Trump Surrenders To China, Tesla Stock Tanks, Layoff Bloodbath, RFK Autism Database & MORE!

Krystal and Emily discuss Trump surrenders to China, Elon flees as Tesla spirals, layoff bloodbath hits factories, Pete Hegseth Pentagon meltdown, RFK massive autistic data collection, lib podcaster destroys Obama Dem to his face, 60 mins producer resigns over Trump pressure. Eric Blanc: https://x.com/_ericblanc  Timestamps: (00:00)Intro (5:32)Trump SURREDNERS […]

Christian Zionism in Bukele’s El Salvador

President Nayib Bukele’s framing of security as a spiritual battle between good and evil helps to explain his popularity and his support for Israel Isabel Rikkers and Noelle Brigden October 9, 2024 El Salvador’s President, Nayib Bukele, stands beside the country’s flags during the country’s Independence Day celebrations […]

A History of Violence in the Caucasus

by Richard Wilson Escape from Pindostan Apr 22, 2025 Richard Wilson details the long history of the peoples of the Caucasus, a region marked by imperial invasions, shifting alliances, ethnolinguistic complexity, and martial traditions rooted in mountainous terrain and ancestral codes of honor. Since we may boast that […]

4/22/25: Worst April Since Great Depression, China Warns World, Hegseth Meltdown, Harvard v Trump

Emily and Saagar discuss worst April since Great Depression, China warns against teaming with US, Hegseth meltdown, fired antiwar official speaks out, DHS Secretary robbed, Trump floats incentives to increase birthrates, Harvard sues Trump admin, free speech org goes off on Trump.  Timestamps: (00:00)Intro (4:28)WORST APRIL SINCE GREAT […]

Harvard Sues Admin

Harvard Sues Admin Plus: Democrats visit El Salvador, Taiwan invasion possibilities, Hayek on rule of law, and more… LIZ WOLFE Battle heats up: Earlier this month, the Trump administration, which has declared war on elite universities and threatened to pull their funding, “sent Harvard a list of demands that […]

Pope Francis Has Died

Pope Francis Has Died Plus: Ross Douthat on technological change, Trump on a possible Jerome Powell firing, and more… LIZ WOLFE Pope Francis has died. The first Jesuit pope and first Latin American pope has died, at age 88, after a 12-year papacy in which he advocated for the […]

Trump Tariffs As ‘Sound Vision, Poor Execution’, China, the USA, and the Thucydides Trap, The New Moroccan Empire, Travels in El Salvador, Middle-Aged Japanese Man Trading Cards

Trump Tariffs As ‘Sound Vision, Poor Execution’, China, the USA, and the Thucydides Trap, The New Moroccan Empire, Travels in El Salvador, Middle-Aged Japanese Man Trading Cards Niccolo Soldo Apr 21, 2025 Every weekend (almost) I share five articles/essays/reports with you. I select these over the course of […]

Be a Patriot

Fleeing America before you are threatened is a lot like obeying in advance. Source By George Packer Professors Timothy Snyder, Marci Shore, and Jason Stanley are leaving Yale for the University of Toronto. Some of their reasons might be personal and professional, but these well-known academics—two historians and […]