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David Gergen was the right kind of fellow. Born in 1942 in Durham, North Carolina, his father chaired the mathematics department at Duke University, and served as director of a research office affilia ...

The sharpest and best insight at the core of New York Times columnist Ross Douthat's recent book, Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious, is that religious disaffiliation is effectively the n ...

It's 1973 and Mona Glass is a 24-year-old amateur tennis star in a long-running affair with Saul Plotz, her former college professor. Her parents like Saul and desperately want the free-spirited Mona ...

I was two years into college when I picked up the book "Real Education" by the much-maligned conservative Charles Murray. Even after the roughly 17 years since its publication, I fo ...

Five years after pandemic lockdowns disrupted the rollout of Chromatica, Lady Gaga has blessed our ears with her gigantic, return-to-form seventh studio album: Mayhem. The past years for the star have ...

Last year, Charli XCX lit a neon-green fire under the pop world with Brat -- a brash, chaotic album that redefined what pop could sound like in 2024. The summer became dominated by the British si ...

The instruments of darkness tell us truths ~ William Shakespeare, Macbeth Preface Paterson, NJ Paterson is often described as physically static; a time warp rooted by a skyline of once vital mills. So ...

WWE has mastered a nifty magic trick. The company simultaneously announces record revenues while its flagship event, WrestleMania 41, struggles to sell tickets for the upcoming Easter weekend. This is ...

This piece contains spoilers on 'The Last of Us' HBO's The Last of Us is best known for its aggressive foray into the culture war, but beneath its surface-level agenda the show is an occasionall ...

By all accounts, the new Superman film has been a major success. Released on July 11, 2025, it grossed $122 million on its opening weekend, marking the biggest debut ever for a standalo ...