James Kirchick
Hot Takes
A handy digest of recent media coverage concerning the L.A. wildfires
Words and Deeds
In blaming Biden’s rhetoric for Trump’s attempted assassination, Republicans are guilty not just of hypocrisy but of endangering a value they claim to hold dear: free speech
It’s the Border, Stupid
Far-right parties across Europe rode anxiety over mass migration to big victories. America should take heed
The View from Here
Harvard’s sanctioning of two Rhodes Scholarship recipients is only the latest in a series of controversies plaguing the prestigious academic prize
“Bipartisan Karaoke” Night
There is one thing that can still bring a divided Washington together: the music of Elton John
All That Is Solid Melts into Theory
How did a once obscure academic notion called “gender identity” triumph over material reality? Credit—or blame—Judith Butler
Armie Hammer Breaks His Silence: Coda
Two years ago, allegations of rape destroyed the actor’s career. This week, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office dropped its case against him
Armie Hammer Breaks His Silence
Two years after some of the most shocking allegations of the #MeToo era lit up the Internet and destroyed his career, the actor has finally decided to tell his side of the story
The View from Here
What drives Trump? More than racism, power, or even greed, it’s an insatiable hunger for fame
Love and War
Advise & Consent is rightly remembered as a classic Washington movie. It was also an important—if complicated—moment in gay history
More Is More
Skyhorse will seemingly publish anything, from the conspiracist screeds of Roger Stone and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to the canceled essays of Norman Mailer
Guilt by Orientation
In JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass, Oliver Stone continues his three-decade slander of an innocent man—one who, not coincidentally, happened to be gay
The View from Here
Bernard-Henri Lévy will never give up on hopeless causes
Origin Story
How a self-published investigation into the possibility of a “lab leak” upended groupthink about the coronavirus
Et Tu, A.C.L.U.?
How America’s staunchest defenders of free speech lost their nerve
