Hunter Biden’s Crack-Fueled Misadventures
The hair-raising tale of how a future president’s son burned his Burisma millions on a desperate, three-year, coast-to-coast drug binge
Books, Arts & Manners
China’s Art-Film Army of the Brainwashed
Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue confuses poetry for politics.
In Praise of Neal Adams, the Reigning King of Comic Books
A tribute to one of America’s greatest artists.
Salman Rushdie Strikes Again
In his new essay collection ‘Languages of Truth,” Salman Rushdie offers studied insults and takes few risks.
The Thought Police Come for Individual Lines of Dialogue in Novels
Cowed by online complaints, two authors agree to withdraw passages from already-published books. The precedent is alarming.
Western Wonders in Oklahoma’s Gilcrease Museum
Artifacts from 15,000 B.C., a magnificent Eakins portrait, Remington cowboys, contemporary Native American sculpture and weaving. . . . This collection rivals the Smithsonian’s.
In the Heights Is Cultural Erasure, Not Celebration
A goose-stepping, hive-mind musical for these progressive times
Songs of the Bad War
‘The killing and dying, it was all done in vain. Oh Willie McBride, it all happened again.’
George Eliot: An Extraordinary Victorian
She herself was extraordinary, brilliant and tough enough to sustain ties that other rebels would have destroyed.
A Guide for Recovering the Wisdom of the Past
A review of The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos, by Sohrab Ahmari.