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Last year, Kanye West—sometimes known as Ye—released a song titled “Nigga Heil Hitler.” The music video featured rows of black men bathed in blue light fiercely intoning the title...

When Homer was a little boy,He never had a single toy.All his play was in his mind;In that sense only he was blind. The bard is not a slave...

That by which we riseis that by which we fall. This comes as no surprise at all.But paradox the rule,that by which we fallis also that by which we rise.This...

A few years ago, I had some routine surgery. Something went wrong in recovery. The nurses on the floor couldn’t fix it. They couldn’t find the specialist. It was Sunday....

Some years ago, I was a resident at Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center in Johnstown, a small postindustrial town in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. In a free moment,...

Everyone assures us that we enjoy the blessings of progress: Capitalism has produced great ­material wealth, modern technoscience has provided countless benefits. But the development that is pressed upon...

Far from a mere sordid distraction or an endless supply of tabloid slop, the Epstein files may just be the most important revelation we’ve witnessed in a century or...

Kevin James and ­Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke rarely appear side by side, even in print—the back-cover endorsements to this biography of St. Norbert...

England’s best-groomed town is Darlington, Yorkshire. Data from Britain’s Office of National Statistics show that in 2024, Darlington (pop. 110,562) had 125 barber shops and beauty salons...

In the musical Wicked, the familiar story of The Wizard of Oz is retold from the perspective of its supposed villain. When Elphaba, the green-skinned, talented young woman who will later be remembered...

In the autumn of 1944, Ludwig Wittgenstein noticed a young doctoral student in attendance at his lectures at the University of Cambridge. She was “a woman, Mrs so and so who calls herself Miss Anscombe...

Ryan Burge is unignorable. A political scientist known for his “graphs about religion,” Burge is required reading for anyone who writes about Christianity in America today...

Two twin-like English sisters ran the place. When we checked in, one asked, “Is it the case . . .?” The other finished, “It’s your honeymoon?”    It was. They handed...

Wise, you fur-framed ghost.Rise, you antler-crowned king.Let sinew and bone stitch together again.Let ears and tail be joined once more by skin.Leap from the roadside where you have slept.Leap...

Hollywood released quite a few movies about Jesus in the 1960s and ’70s. Not all got rave reviews, and historians would likely say that few of them represent accurately...