When Philip Roth died in 2018 at age 85, all eyes turned to Blake Bailey, his appointed biographer who’d been…

In this week’s episode of The Spectator P.M. Podcast, hosts Aubrey Gulick and Luther Abel are back from their brief hiatus…

 I am delighted to say that I will be joining the new Thales College, as a professor of humanities. What…

Hunter S. Thompson was necessary for the rest of us to be able to do whatever we want in our…

On Juneteenth, I decided to celebrate by visiting the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Met currently has a variety of…

The latest fad is to travel to dangerous destinations. That is, to die. Perhaps there are people who are de…

There’s a new Transformers movie, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts. Although reviewers diverge on the specifics, they generally agree that…

Some four hundred thousand visitors pass through the wrought iron gates of the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague each year,…

The Pillowman, the acclaimed play by British-Irish playwright Martin McDonagh (famous for The Lieutenant of Inishmore and the films In…

Those in the military wage war. They travel long distances, they wreck things, they kill people, they are killed by…