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“The Handmaid’s Tale” Reflects the Exhaustion of Liberal Feminism
You almost forget that Elisabeth Moss can smile. The lead actor on Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale,” now in its sixth and final season, spent much of her screen time...
“A Minecraft Movie” Is a Tale of Two Cinematic Universes
I’ve never played Minecraft in my life—but then I’m not a Christian, either, and have always delighted in the distinctly Mormon cinematic universe of Jared Hess, the director of...
The Evolution of a Folk-Punk Hero
Patrick Schneeweis was never the voice of a generation, but perhaps he was the voice of a tendency. To a small but fervent and far-flung community of listeners, he...
Two Young Pianists Test Their Limits
When, last month, the preposterously gifted twenty-year-old pianist Yunchan Lim played Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts, in Costa Mesa, California, the crowd responded...
The Gilded Age Never Ended
Today’s plutocrat, on the other hand, sees the cultural élite as part of the burdensome past. One prophetic peculiarity of Donald Trump’s rise in New York was his scanting...
Barry Blitt’s “You’re Fired!”
For the March 3, 2025, cover, Barry Blitt depicts Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin, and James Madison ejected from their offices—a startling representation of the chaos and mass layoffs of...
Sunn’s and Ha’s Snack Bar Lay Down Roots
Lee opened Sunn’s in partnership with the wine maven Grant Reynolds, of Parcelle, who oversees the quite excellent wine program; as befits such a petite restaurant, the list is...
The Rise of the Passive Spectator
The famed twentieth-century photojournalist Weegee was just as fascinated with tragedy—fires, car crashes, murders—as he was with our desire to gawk. Source link
“Moby-Dick” Sets Sail at the Met Opera
Jane BuaBua writes about classical music for Goings On.Among the most notable opening lines in literature is undoubtedly that of Herman Melville’s “Moby-Dick.” For just three words, “Call me...
The Palantir Guide to Saving America’s Soul
In the spring of 2014, a trans-anarchist Google engineer petitioned the White House to arrest our national decline. The plan was snappy: “1. Retire all government employees with full...
