culture wars Archives

Kicking and Screaming

Male cheerleaders? Who cares

Focus on your fantasy team instead

Britt McHenry

A sea change does seem to have taken place, from my perspective for the better

Lionel Shriver

Do conservatives have the edge with moderates in the trans-rights argument?

Charles Lipson

The chief sin of Amazon’s The Rings of Power is that it is often simply dull

J.S. Barnes

Politics

Does this clamorous crowd seem happy? Are they enraptured by visions of a better world?

Lionel Shriver

Politics
September 13, 2023
Dobbs needn’t be a Pyrrhic victory for Republicans
Pro-life politicians haven’t gotten their legs under them yet
Ben Domenech
Family
August 18, 2023
Real America is the middle seat in coach
Thoughts from a thirty-six-hour trip home
Bridget Phetasy
Politics
August 7, 2023
We’re living through Barack Obama’s third term
Time for a Kalorama house stakeout
Ben Domenech
Campaign 2024
May 22, 2023
Tim Scott appeals to a GOP of the past
He doesn’t have the venom necessary in contemporary politics
Ben Domenech
Politics
February 27, 2023
How Pat Buchanan redefined the twenty-first century
What a pity that his warnings were not heeded twenty-five years earlier
Daniel McCarthy
Film
November 30, 2022
Tár is more than a #MeToo story
The film’s gender politics reveal the long shadow of the European canon
Julia Sirmons
Politics
October 23, 2022
Pat Buchanan and thirty years of culture wars
Why his call to arms still resonates today
Ben Domenech
Internet
November 14, 2019
Sordid confessions of a Centrist Dad
I have taken to seeking out short films of taboo figures like Tony Blair and Barack Obama, being maturely analytical and thrillingly reasonable
Sam Leith
Art
August 28, 2019
The abject stupidity of the Arnautoff murals debacle
Don’t blame snowflakes – grown-ups are the idiots
Lionel Shriver
Education
February 28, 2019
Why I hate ‘the N-word’
The pretense is that you’re not saying it, when of course you are
Lionel Shriver