Writing and the conservative impulse
All writers are, in a certain sense, conservative
Arts Reviews
The good, bad and ugly in arts and exhbitions
Monday
Saturday
The joie de vivre of Emily in Paris
It’s a charming escape from all the virtue-signaling and haranguing — which is why the elite critics hate it
Monday
Thanks for the laughs, Bob Saget
He was America’s dad and a filthy comedian; his range was just one reason so many loved him
If Hamilton is cringe, then America is done for
The woke, and a few on the right, are ready to jettison the Founding Fathers
Sunday
Sidney Poitier refused to be defined by race
The Old Hollywood great once declared, ‘I am artist, man, American, contemporary’
Tuesday
‘Don’t Look Up’ and Hollywood virtue-signaling
If the filmmakers are correct, debating the legacy of a 2021 comedy will be the last thing on anyone’s mind
Monday
Kandinsky’s colors
Kandinsky is getting spun up the Guggenheim’s spiral
Wynton’s works
Wynton Marsalis has not allowed tradition to become self-serving traditionalism
How did Walt Disney learn from Ancien Régime decoration?
Inspiring Walt Disney makes the case that Disney’s studio functioned in a similar way to an eighteenth-century decorative art manufactory
Truth in Duluth
Girl from the North Country is a delight as pure as birdsong
Jake Gyllenhaal is guilty
He carries his latest film and keeps it from going off the rails
Country music drowns out cancel culture
The snitches came for Morgan Wallen — until his fans fought back
Richard Lester at ninety
He lent ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ the spirit of untamed frivolity
Sunday
On the road with Bob Dylan
The Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour is on and Dylan is like no 80-year-old you’ve ever seen
Friday
How Covid killed grown-up movies at the theater
Audiences may never leave their couches again — unless it’s for Spider-Man 7
Tuesday
The Christmas carol canon that could have been
Pheasants? ‘Dickory dock’? Here’s how a narrow slice of our history changed the holidays forever
Monday
Seventy-five years of It’s a Wonderful Life
In George Bailey, we see our own fathers, our own brothers and husbands and sons
Friday
Glee gives us a lesson in wokeness
No toleration for intolerance
The problem with Christmas movies
Our writer gets grinchy about Love Actually and Elf
Wednesday
The return of the brilliant Nicolas Cage
He’s one of our most talented actors, elevating even the most awful of scripts
