“With Vice President Vance as President Trump’s heir apparent, it is difficult to envision a restoration of principled conservatism any time soon. Meanwhile, the country’s political class is plagued ...

“The grand Guignol exaggeration provides an excellent comic read, as we fail to take completely seriously his worrywart grandstanding. Chances are, we have known someone exactly like him, who upon ...

“The tower tall strikes bells. The day slinks out/Leaving behind skies watercolor clear/And gives the evening air the taste of song” ...

In listing the “non-literary” analogs for form in certain kinds of contemporary poetry, Jonathan Holden identifies a way in which contemporary writers recover lyric, while pushing it in newer ...

(A 2006 image of the border barrier between Tijuana and San Diego/Tomascastelazo) “However, it seems unlikely that this is because neoconservatism inherently favors open borders, as some critics have ...

“To succumb to pressure to suppress or disguise his true beliefs would have been, for Spinoza, a concession equivalent to defeatist self-abnegation.” ...

Contributing editor Jonathan Church reflects on the most important essays the magazine published in 2024.

“Social media and online articles about these incidents boast ten or even 20 comments praising the vigilante for each one condemning the act of violence.” ...

“Capitalism has done much to develop the economic machinery of the modern world to the point where all of this is possible. But it is long since time to move past the capitalist phase of our history ...

“As witness of this exaltation of the gaudy, the poet reclaims kitsch as a redemptive force, a vital stream of art, when it is mindfully connected to a set of local traditions, the heritage of a group ...

“The tone of After Image is simultaneously calm and feverish, as the bereaved one moves along a spectrum from numb to utterly passionate, up and down, yet never hysterical, never heaping ashes on her ...

“Perhaps it is because of my own bias toward [Darryl Cooper as a friend, but the responsibility for such imprecise talk is something I place on [Tucker] Carlson, not on his interview subject.” ...