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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 ...

Sarah Ruden, translator of Aristophanes, Homer, Petronius, St. Augustine, etc., and the author of a study on St. Paul and a biography of Virgil, has now written an evaluation of Sylvia Plath as a poet ...

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 ...

Excerpted from Stop All the Clocks. Reprinted with the permission of the publisher, Arcade Publishing. "I was raised in South Florida," Marcos said once Mona had finished. He di ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Thrilling Debut that Explores the Profound Mysteries of Life in the Digital AgeMona Veigh was feeling burnt out from the tech world--and life in general. Following the death of her unconvention ...

On a sunny day in Alexandria's historic Parker-Gray neighborhood, I knock on the door of a large brick house painted yellow with green trim. "You're right on time," says R. Emm ...

In late May, Kermit the Frog gave a commencement address. He did so at graduation ceremonies for the University of Maryland, alma mater of the late Jim Henson, the father of the Muppets. From his very ...

In the age of modernity, we find ourselves confronting a familiar affliction: bleakness. Our lives are marked by disillusionment. We doom-scroll, our eyes glazed over, while once useful dopamine recep ...