How ‘questioning authority’ gave us wokeness
Rebelling against everything has led not to less authority but bad authority — like Dr. Fauci and 1619
Culture
Monday
Thursday
There’s nothing ‘pro-trans’ about deleting women
This is a woke mass delusion and it’s being forced on us all
Will Smith: the last gentleman
Violence isn’t always the answer, but it’s sometimes the answer
Wednesday
We are all still prisoners of the Sixties
What was formerly outré or unimaginable remains in vogue. But human instinct will win out
Friday
The trans debate shows we’re all supremacists
We’re all stuck in the nineteenth century
Thursday
Holbein at the Morgan
Holbein’s heroes have arrived in New York City
Messenger service
First Flight to Tokyo by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers reviewed
Michael Jackson on Broadway
MJ: The Musical reviewed
Troubles in paradise
Belfast reviewed
Buster’s land stand
Buster Keaton is again of the moment
Tuesday
Twitter suspends the Babylon Bee for telling the truth
Don’t you dare tell a joke they disagree with
Saturday
When victimhood is a game, everyone loses
Give up on a left-wing politics whose purpose is to amplify our differences
Tuesday
Pop culture is making millennials miserable
Instead of worrying about the latest ‘vibe shift,’ maybe we should get a life
Sunday
Sibelius speaks
A new recording of a rare piece by Jean Sibelius is out
Precarious and thrilling
Milton Avery was able to carve out his own path, distinct from modernism’s march through history
Carnegie plus one
After 130 years, Carnegie Hall decided it could use a virtual stage
Going Greco-Roman in Boston
What Would Seneca Do?
Swing for me
The experience of seeing George Furth and Stephen Sondheim’s Company is something like inadvertently joining a swingers’ party
Naples and nurture
The Hand of God reviewed
Witches brew
The Tragedy of Macbeth reviewed
Friday
Sam Brinton and the dorkification of kink
Biden has welcomed a pup slave fetish master into his administration
Tuesday
Eric Adams and the new Democratic censors
New York’s new mayor is performing a Tipper Gore drag act over drill rap
Friday
Black History Month and the usable past
Aggregate history washes away the details that represent an actual life lived
Thursday
It’s not Joe Rogan who needs to apologize
And if the experts who got so much wrong ever do apologize, it won’t be sincere
Tuesday
Biden’s food policies have nothing to do with hunger
In twilight America, the deadly sin of gluttony has vanished
Monday
Time for the baby boomers to grow up already
The generation that wanted to remain forever young is now ruining everything, even old age
Tuesday
The hippies have become the cops
Neil Young heads a band of censorious anti-Spotify snowflakes
Friday
Playboy’s #MeToo problem isn’t Hugh Hefner — it’s porn
Everyone is ignoring why the magazine became so corrupt
Monday
Hogarth framed
Great artists like Hogarth are getting the trigger-warning treatment
