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by | Jan 8, 2025

Disney’s owners have discovered that their primary mission is to “entertain and sell tickets,” in the words of CEO Bob…

by | Jan 5, 2025

There’s a sage line in the 1972 Western classic, Jeremiah Johnson, written by the great John Milius. An old mountain…

by | Dec 20, 2024

Hey, ‘80s kids — our time has come. If you hadn’t noticed, those about to take control of running the…

by | Dec 20, 2024

One year ago, almost to the day, I used this column as a “post-wedding dispatch” to offer some (very) preliminary…

by | Nov 24, 2024

Weep, Shudder, Die: On Opera and Poetry By Dana Gioia (Paul Dry Books, 198 pages, $20) “People’s reaction to opera…

by | Nov 15, 2024

Today’s movie stars are, by and large, a sorry lot. If they haven’t been to Jeffrey Epstein’s island or P….

by | Nov 9, 2024

Though now proud to call America my home, I was born in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, in a rural,…

by | Oct 9, 2024

The following is adapted from R. Emmett Tyrrell’s memoir, How Do We Get Out of Here?: Half a Century of…

by | Oct 6, 2024

A Woman Underground By Andrew Klavan (Mysterious Press, 288 pages, $27) Sometimes it takes several entries in a fiction series…

by | Oct 5, 2024

In a 1971 essay entitled “The Bible,” Ken Kesey wrote about what he felt was the most important of questions,…

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