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Caitlin Flanagan: It’s Not Jill Biden’s Fault
The former First Lady’s new memoir is being criticized by journalists, ex-aides, and Democratic operatives—the same people who pretended her husband was…
Caitlin Flanagan
I Am Not a Robot (but My Boyfriend Was)
Joanna Stern on the age of AI everything.
Suzy Weiss
1HR 11M
Great Americans: John Steinbeck Lives with Us Still
Sixty years after his death, the novelist’s broken, striving, stubborn country looks a lot like ours.
Major Garrett
The WWII Novel That Explains America
Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Jon Meacham breaks down ‘The Winds of War.’
Shilo Brooks
54M
Belle Burden’s Fans Don’t Care If She Lied
A New York socialite wrote a memoir about the collapse of her marriage, but seems to have exaggerated her financial woes. Her fans support her anyway.
Kat Rosenfield
When Steve Jobs Grew Up
The man I met in 1986 was a brat and a bully who didn’t know how to run a business. He failed—and learned to become a great leader.
Joe Nocera
Stanford’s War on the Western Canon
A faculty member explains why he voted against Stanford’s new general education program, and what the curriculum reveals about the university’s retreat…
Iván Marinovic
What Christopher Nolan Has to Get Right About the ‘Odyssey’
The hardest thing to capture about the poem is also the key to its enduring greatness.
Spencer Klavan
Two Drinks with. . . Patricia Cornwell, the Queen of Forensic Crime Thrillers
At the age of 24, long before she became a famous writer, Cornwell began work on her first book. I talked with her about the mentor whose biography she…
Zac Bissonnette
Of Tradwives and MAGA Girlfriends. Plus . . .
The Trump admin takes on antiwhite discrimination. Gad Saad on the West’s suicidal empathy. Make the Sabbath great again. And much more.
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What If Tradwives Are Secretly Miserable?
That’s what millennial feminists desperately want to believe, as the success of the buzzy new novel ‘Yesteryear’ proves.
Kat Rosenfield
The Great Writers Who Were Terrible People
And why we should read their work despite their odious prejudices.
Shilo Brooks
48M
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