Style on steroids: the power of Jerry Bruckheimer
Bruckheimer may think that the Oedipus Complex is a Greek shopping mall, but the set-ups of Bad Boys and Top Gun are classical
Paywall
Wednesday
Standing up to eat is the new line in dining in DC
Who’s footing the bill?
Tuesday
‘A system at odds with the Constitution’
A conversation with Christopher Caldwell about America today
Friday
Tyranny of the minority
Cancel culture is real. It destroys lives, ruins careers, causes suicide and silences reasonable debate
Show off and tell: the sad death of inconspicuous consumption
While I was in Manhattan I was dropped by my New Yorker girlfriend for not being rich enough
Jung love
Savage Messiah: How Dr Jordan Peterson Is Saving Western Civilization by Jim Proser reviewed
A Godfrey New Year
All I had to do was give myself a colonic with a turkey baster and a sachet of organic miso soup, and I was ready to embark on my metaphysical quest
Monday
Who invented the hamburger?
The immigrant origins of the all-American meal
Is he talking to us?
De Niro should live up to his movie characters and stop his knee-jerk dissing of Donald Trump
After the Americans
The SDF look like city hipsters in an Arab village, blasting Kurdish revolutionary music from civilian cars
Sunday
All modern art is quite useless
The contemporary artist doesn’t expect to have to suffer for what he calls his art. Away with the garret!
The Hayes of our lives
A soul survivor whose sonic alchemy endures
Saturday
2019 was not a good year for freedom of speech
Is everything rosy in the groves of academe?
In the cart of the city
‘The new owners employ Army vets for a few dollars a day to sit by a van in case an inspector comes’
Friday
The soft power of Italian jazz
Eat to the beat
How to lose votes and bore people
Impeachment and the Democratic primary are the two weakest plot lines of The Donald Trump Show
Wednesday
Polls apart
The modern pollster tends to be in love with his model. Hence his predictions tend to confirm the model rather than pull back the curtain on other contingencies
Tuesday
The case for Genghis Trump
What force on earth can reform a corrupt or incompetent elite, one that serves itself and its dreams rather the citizens of the country?
Friday
A hero for the Snowflake age
Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan is now a politically correct pantywaist
The audacity of verse
The Music of Time: Poetry in the Twentieth Century by John Burnside reviewed