To understand the powerful forces the West is confronting in its struggle against the left, we’d do well to recall Christopher Lasch’s description of the narcissistic personality that now dominates.
Author: Mark Judge (Mark Judge)
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If You’re Seeing ‘The Odyssey,’ First Read ‘An Odyssey’
Daniel Mendelsohn’s memoir relates how the ancient story of the return of an absent father melted the ice between him and his own dad.
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The Evil Complicity of Dahlia Lithwick’s Fake Trans Outrage
Lithwick’s outrage at the Supreme Court’s ruling in the recent decision upholding a state’s right to ban transgender athletes in women’s sports calls to mind her despicable coverage of the Kavanaugh hearings.
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Justice Kavanaugh’s Transgender Ruling and the Misogyny of the Left
The Supreme Court’s ruling in West Virginia v. B.P.J. reflects Kavanaugh’s understanding both of sports and of the real and natural differences between men and women.
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New Novel Plasters the Elite New York Art World
In defying expectations about genre and intellectual stereotypes, Zoe Dubno’s Happiness & Love is a book for our time.
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Hunter Biden’s Self-Serving Self-Help Comeback
Without shame and, with it, the recognition of his own participation in evil, Biden is selling a cynical, counterfeit, and probably doomed version of recovery.
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Replace Awful Late-Night Shows with Arts TV
It’s time to return to a time when America’s cultural gatekeepers promoted things that elevate rather than degrade our souls.
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Spoiler: Movie Critic Devoured by Trump Derangement Syndrome
A film critic’s descent into the madness of insisting audiences cannot tell fantasy from reality ends up being a confession of his own weakness.
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Reid Hoffman and the Left’s Ongoing Operation to Control Public Opinion
The left-wing billionaire Reid Hoffman, who funded E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuits against the president, has his fingers and money in many operations designed to manipulate public opinion.
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Middle America’s Jurist
In ‘Alito,’ Mollie Hemingway describes the formation and explains the thought of Middle America’s voice on the high court: Justice Samuel Alito.
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Grocery Stories, Conservatives, and the Working Class
A new book on the labor practices of grocery stores diagnoses problems in America’s service sector but misses the mark in recommending solutions.
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The Untold Story of Larry Bird
A new book about the basketball great gives readers an up-close look at an untold story and a now forgotten world of college sports.
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The Case for All-Girls’ Catholic Schools
A compelling new book about the virtues of all-girls’ Catholic schools gets much right but cannot resist the impulse to fly the feminist flag and ignore or dump on men.
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Magazine Worships Trans Representative as ‘Full of Grace’
Washingtonian magazine’s profile of Sarah McBride is an in-your-face assault on common sense and decency—though par for the course in today’s journalism.
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The Lost Literary Life of Marilyn Monroe
There was a time when American popular culture was one of real intellectual and cultural striving.
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David Byrne Is Joyful, and the Left Can’t Stand It
The former Talking Heads artist invokes a joyful energy in his music that affirms American life and repulses the mindless worship of the ugly that preoccupies the left.
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Classic ‘Rolling Stone’ and the Cowardice of Today’s Media
There are lessons for today’s journalists to be found in the collapse of one of America’s leading cultural magazines.
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‘Culture Care’ on the Edges
A new book presents a healthy picture of what makes for a thriving, generative, and life-affirming culture, but it misses the mark in directing that advice to only one side of the divide.
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Escaping the Woke Jungle, ‘National Geographic’ Reclaims Its Legacy
For several decades, the once-great American institution had lost its way, but recent efforts may indicate a return to its former greatness.
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Don’t Take Advice From Arthur C. Brooks
The one-time conservative policy wonk is now a richly rewarded self-help guru, hanging out with Oprah and missing the point.
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The ‘Very Senior Prom’ and Mourning the Loss of Play
As we forget what it means to play, we lose the sense of curiosity and adventure that not only makes life worth living but also helps us to secure our freedom.
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Feminism vs. Feminine Mystery in Film: ‘The Bride!’ and ‘Little Trouble Girls’
Two recent films offer views of feminism and femininity at odds with one another and demonstrating how vacuous Hollywood’s understanding of both has become.
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‘VHS Forever’ and the Transformative Power of Tech and Entertainment
For good and for ill, technology and entertainment can transform man’s understanding of himself and the universe.
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Fully Human Lives: The Jazz Greatness of Kurt Elling
American Jazz great Kurt Elling’s love for the music touches audiences in the heart and soul, giving them glimpses of what it means to experience life at its fullest.
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‘Köln 75’ Reminded Me Why I Love Movies
This small-budget German film is heads and shoulders above anything generating Oscar buzz this year.
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Minneapolis and the Anti-Communist Film Festival
We can learn more about what inspires leftist street action in Minnesota by examining old anti-communist films than we can from following the legacy media today.
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‘The Testament of Ann Lee’: Hollywood’s Retroactive Repression
Hollywood only seems able to scold America in one direction these days.
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A New Book Trashing Elon Musk Is Already Out of Date
The far-left authors of this attempted hit job had reality hit them in the face before they even took the first shot.
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The Awful ‘Marty Supreme’
The frenetic pace of Marty Supreme does not compensate for the film’s lack of depth or meaning.
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Hogwarts from Hell: D.C.’s Deep State High School
An interconnected web of deep state actors all emanate from the same exclusive Washington, D.C. high schools.
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The Most Explosive Book of 2026
Jacob Siegel’s The Information State exposes how the deep state conspired to control the narrative.
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‘Two Prosecutors’ and a Call for Anti-Communist Filmmakers
Two new films and their directors showcase the two poles of human experience that should be showcased at an upcoming Anti-Communist film festival.
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Flame Out at the ‘Daily Wire’
“A tragedy. A shame. A waste.” A former Daily Wire scribe on where Ben Shapiro went wrong.
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The Social Justice Left Wants to Ruin Skateboarding
Skateboarding is a uniquely American cultural phenomenon that, like all American inventions, cuts across divisions instead of accentuating them.
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Pope Leo and the Illiteracy of Modern Movies
When we consider what film once was and what it can be, we realize what we are losing as we lose literacy.
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Good Dog! ‘Muzzle: City of Wolves’ Delivers
Director John Stalberg delivers an entertaining film audiences—and conservatives—will love, even though critics pan it.
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I Found It: Reflections on Male Friendship
Our attempts to get to the bottom of how modernity harms young men today seem to ignore the most obvious answer: It fails to promote genuine friendship.
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‘Peanuts’ at 75
Peanuts creator, Charles M. Schulz, may have been one of the 20th century’s greatest evangelists.
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They Wokeified ‘Damn Yankees’
The unnecessary insertion of racial politics into this classic musical cuts deep because the original was based on my grandfather’s life.
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The Anti-Communist Film Festival
America’s long history of anti-communist filmmaking is worth remembering and celebrating.
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The Laughable Hypocrisy of Joyce Vance
A left-wing attorney’s new book on “our democracy” relies on vacuous clichés and shopworn slogans rather than a cogent argument.
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Pam Grier in Person: Foxy Brown as a Woman in Full
A conversation with the star at the Bethesda Theater.
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‘The Breakfast Club,’ and Better Teen Movies
Even more than the standard litany of influential teen movies, these forgotten classics touch upon coming-of-age themes that grapple with reality.
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Columbia Journalism Dean Celebrates Man Who Beat, “Tortured” Women
The double standards of American journalism are on full display in Jelani Cobb’s new memoir, which praises a mentor who beat women, even while Cobb smeared innocent conservatives accused of the same crime.
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A Musical Tribute to Mother Teresa
In a world often divided on religious and political lines, Mother Teresa is still someone who inspires near universal accolades.
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Liberalism’s Cure for the Man Crisis Makes Men Worse
The kind of men we look to for strength are precisely the kind of men our culture now condemns.
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Erik Wemple Should Call Out His ‘New York Times’ Colleagues for Their Lies
The former Washington Post media columnist has an opportunity to do some housekeeping and call out his new colleagues at The New York Times.
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How Bob Woodward Could Have Saved the ‘Washington Post’ from Russiagate Humiliation
Woodward identified the lack of curiosity at the Post that allowed the paper, and all of legacy media, to take the Russiagate bait that is now choking them.
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A Young Filmmaker’s Take on the Tales of Youth
Paul Roland’s inspiration in the legendary filmmaker, John Hughes, offers some hope that Hollywood can once again tell the poignant stories of American teenagers.
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Brett Cooper and Conservatism’s Creative Bankruptcy
Will the right ever break free from its parasitic relationship with Hollywood, and create real art instead of complaining about it?