Mom, Apple Pie—and Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga keeps it classy at Super Bowl LI.
Illiberalism Rising
Both the left and the right warn of growing illiberalism.
Support Your Local Cat Café
The cat café, I suggest with tongue only slightly in cheek, is a spiritual oasis in the hypercompetitive urban landscape.
Scorsese’s Catholic Dilemma
Posted on January 6, 2017
Image: Detail from Fifteen Mysteries of the Virgin Mary, Ibaraki City Museum of Cultural Properties, Ibaraki, Osaka, Japan; Wikimedia Commons.
The question for Silence is not whether another world exists but how such a recognition should affect our lives here.
Pericles in Waveland
We need romantic amplitude of experience lest life become nothing more than King Lear and the Yankees winning all the time.
Will Trump Cure the Great (White) Depression?
For the moment, according to Thomas Edsall, the former sufferers of what might be called the Great White Depression are feeling "elated." What might this mean?