Crimes of the Future is David Cronenberg at his best
Which scenes will cause you to walk out or flee in disgust? Caveat emptor
Culture
Tuesday
Monday
Reclaiming the free and capable man
Why have men become so useless?
How secular humanism is ruining drag
It was never meant to be a neutral form of self-expression
Sunday
Does ‘BDE’ mean masculinity isn’t ‘toxic’ anymore?
The war on the sexes is coming full-circle, and it’s no surprise
Thursday
I regret my promiscuity
Casual sex is fraught with insecurity and miscommunication
Wednesday
Are genital checks inevitable?
Cisgender people deserve respect and inclusivity too
Thursday
Four vectors of danger for America and the West
It’s not just 1970s-style omens; we’ve got plenty of new problems too
Friday
Demi Lovato’s pronoun-based self-deception
Why do we insist on celebrating those who need our help?
Monday
Philip Guston in the padded room
After a controversial postponement, the Philip Guston retrospective has landed in Boston
Sinking into the pixels
We’re All Going to the World’s Fair is an important film about the internet
Ukraine in black and white
Recalling the moral clarity of Lillian Hellman’s The North Star
Arcade Fire: the last of the art-rockers?
The band’s return is not just welcome but overdue
The underrated Kenny Dorham
On the fiftieth anniversary of his death, it’s well worth revisiting his remarkable career
SoHo’s downtown drawings
Cultural mavens shouldn’t miss out on a knockout exhibition curated by Emily King
Wednesday
New York City wants to rename monkeypox because racism
Physician, heal thyself!
Saturday
Why can’t a woman be a man?
Pretending she can is destroying everything feminists worked for
Wednesday
Charlie Rose, comeback king
Hasn’t he spent long enough in time-out?
Thursday
Judge swats down Amber Heard’s demand for a mistrial
‘There is no evidence of fraud or wrongdoing’
Tuesday
No one wants to join the military anymore
Our elites’ culture war has targeted the very Americans who traditionally enlist
Monday
Bad-faith readings are damaging our discourse
No, a rep didn’t say she would kill her grandchildren to protect her guns
Thursday
The one-note wonder
The Museum of Modern Art is seeing red with Matisse
Playing the long game
Paul Cezanne is lighting fires with a new retrospective in Chicago
A concert begun in darkness
Remembering Rafael Schächter, a conductor imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp
How green is your Soylent?
A Seventies sci-fi thriller predicted dystopian eco-nightmare for 2022
Why did no one see The Northman?
The movie may be the last of its kind
Macbeth on Broadway: a Very Modern Scottish play
Daniel Craig whips through the Shakespeare tragedy in just over two hours
Monday
Michael Gerson’s descent into liberalism
The Washington Post’s in-house evangelical digs Pride Month and John Roberts
Sunday
The right to keep and bear fireworks
Our patriotic tradition of blowing things up must be protected
This great ungovernable country
Defiance of pointy-headed authority is in America’s very marrow