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Great Americans: The Wizard Who Created Oz
L. Frank Baum was bombastic, idly racist, and prone to drama and moods. He was also a dreamer and a compulsive showman who gave America its greatest…
Ann Bauer
Welcome to Christian Boot Camp. Plus. . .
Niall Ferguson will make you love soccer. Trump’s tourism czar says foreigners believe ‘bullshit’ ideas about America. Why Olivia Rodrigo should believe…
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Steven Spielberg’s ‘Disclosure Day’ Is a Dud
In an era primed for a great UFO movie, the film arrives with impeccable timing and almost nothing interesting to say.
Will Rahn
Great Americans: The Michelangelo of New York
Every stoop and fire hydrant Martin Scorsese’s camera catches is a love poem to New York City. He should know better than to make movies about anywhere…
Colin Quinn
The Machine Making People Human Again. Plus. . .
Mike Pence remembers what conservatism used to be. Joe Nocera on the suffering of Rafael Nadal. Two Drinks with the mom who asked Trump to pay for…
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The Ideologues Are Wrong About ‘Obsession’
Feminists think the horror film is about the toxicity of the Nice Guy; the manosphere argues that it proves women are crazy. But it’s much deeper and…
Kat Rosenfield
I Am Not a Robot (but My Boyfriend Was)
Joanna Stern on the age of AI everything.
Suzy Weiss
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The Kids Who Grew Up Online Are Coming for Hollywood
Can a new generation of YouTubers break us out of our remake rut?
Spencer Klavan
EXCLUSIVE: Scooter Braun Tells His Side of the Taylor Swift Masters War
I spoke to the former mega-manager about working with Kanye West, how management is like parenting, and about being cast as the villain in Taylor…
Suzy Weiss
Two Drinks with . . . the ‘Odd Mom Out’
Jill Kargman built a career by making fun of the rarefied world she grew up in. She has Drew Barrymore on speed dial, got blocked by Mamdani’s wife, and…
Dana Schuster
Wait, Are Kids’ Movies Good Again?
Sometime in the last decade, Hollywood stopped making films that parents would enjoy as much as their kids. With ‘The Sheep Detectives,’ that’s changed.
Kat Rosenfield
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
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