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Literature
How Sports Became Our Civic Religion
And why poor, deindustrialized towns produce the most passionate fans.
April 30, 2026
Shilo Brooks
50M
The Ancient Jewish Wisdom Behind a $5 Billion Company
Daniel Lubetzky of ‘Shark Tank’ talks about ‘Pirkei Avot.’
April 16, 2026
Shilo Brooks
51M
Neal Stephenson on AI, Rome, and How Civilizations Decline
Why the prophetic sci-fi author looks to ancient Rome to understand the future.
April 9, 2026
Shilo Brooks
47M
The Two Types of People Who Never Find Happiness
Arthur Brooks explains how to stop wasting your life.
March 26, 2026
Shilo Brooks
51M
The Bitter Aftertaste of Roald Dahl
As ‘Giant’ brings Dahl to Broadway, it also revives the antisemitic ideas he espoused.
March 19, 2026
Michael Coren
Hunting Humans for Sport
Former Navy SEAL sniper Jack Carr breaks down ‘The Most Dangerous Game.’
March 19, 2026
Shilo Brooks
53M
Joan Didion Knew What Hollywood Would Become
Before the Oscars this weekend, read ‘Play It as It Lays.’
March 12, 2026
Shilo Brooks
53M
The World the Fatwa Made
The Islamic Republic’s most dangerous weapon isn’t missiles. It is a few sentences. They will hang over us—even if the regime falls.
March 8, 2026
Jonathan Rosen
The NYC Public Defender Who Sends Books to Prisoners
And frontier justice in Charles Portis’s ‘True Grit’
March 5, 2026
Shilo Brooks
54M
‘The Brothers Karamazov’ Helped Inspire the Catholic App Hallow
And why Dostoevsky’s classic is the perfect book for Lent.
February 26, 2026
Shilo Brooks
53M
‘Lolita,’ Jeffrey Epstein, and the Real Meaning of a Challenging Classic
How a novel about a pedophile-rapist came to occupy such a prominent place in American life.
February 19, 2026
Shilo Brooks
47M
The Secret Lives of Ordinary People
Before reality TV, there was Dylan Thomas’ ‘Under Milk Wood.’
February 12, 2026
Shilo Brooks
52M
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