Paul Schrader’s Late-Career Comeback Continues with The Card Counter
A review of The Card Counter, directed by Paul Schrader.
Magazine: Culture
Will Denis Villeneuve Capture the Greatness of Dune?
It imagines a far-future mankind that travels the stars yet is organized as an empire, within which competing dynastic families vie for supremacy.
From Pillaging to Prosperity: The Far-Reaching Impact of the Vikings
A review of The Viking Heart: How Scandinavians Conquered the World, by Arthur Herman.
The Enigma of Robert E. Lee
A review of Robert E. Lee: A Life, by Allen C. Guelzo.
Thomas Sowell: The Anti-Utopian
A review of Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell, by Jason L. Riley.
Crime Families
Long-term changes in domestic structure are a reality with which to cope.
The Insects among Us
There are the insects, surprisingly numerous, who elicit compassion.
Give My Regrets to Broadway
Broadway will have become an amusement park, drama and comedy superseded by content, which has then given place to drivel.
Hello to Music
If the Salzburg Festival lives another hundred years, that won’t be enough.
Letters
A professor’s take on the fate of the Latin Mass.