Country Music’s Philosopher King
Kris Kristofferson’s songs couched intimate moments in cosmic terms, pushing country in an existentialist direction.
Kris Kristofferson’s songs couched intimate moments in cosmic terms, pushing country in an existentialist direction.
The Joker sequel has nothing interesting to say about the challenge of fame.
The singer-guitarist MJ Lenderman has been hailed as his genre’s next big thing—probably because he’s offering more of the same.
How a changing media environment, worsened by intentional attempts to deceive people, hampers the response to natural catastrophes
Ever feel like your life is determined by powerful forces beyond your reach? HBO has a show for that.
Twenty years after Lost’s premiere, the show’s mistreatment of Hurley has become only more obvious.
Longevity enthusiasts are microdosing a 19th-century cure-all. Are they onto something?
There are so many better ways to get your greens than sneaking them into a drink.
Wildfires and drought in South America, Israeli missile strikes in Lebanon, early Christmas celebrations in Venezuela, a dahlia show beside Stonehenge, and much more
The U.K. enjoys a bipartisan consensus on phasing out tobacco use. But some see it as a new front in a culture war against the nanny state.
In a culture devoid of moral education, generations are growing up in a morally inarticulate, self-referential world.
The movie seems much more complicated now than it did in 2012.
The Darién Gap was once considered impassable. Now hundreds of thousands of migrants are risking treacherous terrain, violence, hunger, and disease to travel through the jungle to the United States.
His new play, McNeal, starring Robert Downey Jr., subverts the idea that artificial intelligence threatens human ingenuity.
Sometimes, the best thing a parent can do is nothing at all.
Data collection is once again at the forefront of a new technology.
Washington should be dictating policy to Jerusalem, not the other way around.
You’re bound to come across the “Dark Triad” type of malignant narcissists in life—and they can be superficially appealing. Better to look for their exact opposite.
In many domains, the conventional wisdom among progressives is mistaken, oversimplified, or based on wishful thinking. The economics of immigration is not one of them.
New data on the end times