D.C.-area natives have their own weird thing. I did not realize this until I went away to college; previously I had thought of “the DMV” (DC-Maryland-Virginia) as any other bland suburban nowhere,...
Big changes coming here to TAC. After a glorious run of almost twelve years, this blog is coming to an end on this website. We expect it to wind down sometime in the next two weeks. Nothing bad happened,...
The last two movies I watched were “Tar” and “The Banshees of Inishirin”. I recommend both, though “Tar” is by far the better film. That said, I would pay cash money to watch a movie in which...
Politics
Never Nikki Politics and principle alike provide reasons to oppose her.
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Culture
Better to Burn the Books The editing of Roald Dahl shows us what comes after civilization.
Yesterday I posted something about a John Kass reader column, in which “Steve The Pilot” explained why, as a lifelong Chicagoan, he left the city. I invited y’all to share your reasons why you have...
Above, Augustus Gloop, a right proper fatty-fatty fat-fat. You can’t call him “fat” anymore, you bigot! Have you heard what Puffin, which holds the publication rights to Roald Dahl’s books,...
Make America Grunge Again Grunge identified many of America’s problems, even if it couldn’t offer solutions.
Foreign Affairs
How Do Russians Read ‘1984’? Formerly dangerous books have now been made available to the Russian people.
The other day I wrote about how the Church of England, which faces total extinction in the 2060s if it doesn’t turn around its decline, is instead spending its time and energy arguing over whether to...
Congress Has the Chance to End Endless Wars The president is not to be entrusted with the declaration of war.
It’s so embarrassing and infuriating, what US diplomacy is doing to Hungary. The independent Hungarian news site Index reports that Linda Thomas-Greenfield (pictured above), the US ambassador to the...
Why Won’t the New York Times Say ‘Chiefs’? The Times has avoided using the words “Braves,” “Chiefs,” and “Blackhawks”...
Last week, the writer Paul Kingsnorth took me to visit the cave of St. Colman Mac Duagh, a seventh century abbot, bishop, and wonderworker who lived for seven years in the cave you see above. I sat in...
Microsoft’s Big Game If the Microsoft-Activision merger goes through, users can expect more lackluster, cash grabbing, and woke-approved...
A Revisionist Adam Smith Turn to Glory Liu’s incisive study of Adam Smith to vaccinate yourself against the bacilli of bad history...
Barney the Butler A Midwesterner can learn all the tricks of butler school and still never master the art of bending to please rich people....
Enemies of the State The kind of men who first served the post-war security state are now classed among the first ranks of the enemies...
So much mail in response to this post I put up about how only 35 percent of US Catholic parents say it matters a lot to them that their kids share their religious beliefs as adults that I started a new...
Kids, Marriage, and the American Way Revisiting Allan C. Carlson’s The “American Way”: Family and Community in the Shaping of the...
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