Film noir presented a reality that embraced both darkness and glamour, thus getting viewers closer to confronting the truth.
Author: Mark Judge (Mark Judge)
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The Man Crisis and ‘Iron John’ at 35
Now more than ever, it would be wise to examine the work of the poet who knew what was eating at men’s souls in the modern world.
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Engaging With the Culture Must Be the Future of Conservative Media
Serious engagement with the culture is something conservative media can, and should, do—if only there were more support for it.
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Michael Avenatti is Apologizing to Everyone—Except Brett Kavanaugh
The lawyer famous for his fraudulent claims and support from frauds in the media wants to make amends as he faces more jail time.
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Senator Fetterman Humiliated in Wife’s New Book about ‘Radical Tenderness’
Mrs. Fetterman is right to explore the subject of vulnerability and tenderness, but her understanding—and her own practice—is weak.
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‘Bring Me Water’: An Appreciation of the Editor’s Art
As AI and a general lack of curiosity takes hold in our culture, we’d do well to remember that the editor’s art is to draw art out of his writers.
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Robert Novak and the Problem of Contemporary Conservative Media
In a landscape of hot takes, memes, and secondary reactions to legacy media reporting, it pays to recall the real conservative journalism of a figure like Robert Novak.
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Journalism, Feminism, and the Low-Sex Sorority
Journalists of yesterday and today both miss the mark when it comes to understanding the truth of what brings women joy.
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Art, Religion, and Culture in the ’80s
A new book examines the impact of the decade with engaging prose but less than honest assessments of the moral costs.
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The Totalitarian Impulse Buckley Knew
William F. Buckley understood the totalitarian impulse of the left, both at home and abroad, but the magazine he left behind fails to grasp it.
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Models, Reality TV, and Stick-Shift Surprises
A new book by a former contestant on America’s Next Top Model is full of surprises—including the wisdom it offers about how to treat people.
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Night Train: Pope Francis and Catholic Death
The Catholic experience of death encourages a realistic embrace of its sadness, tragedy, and terror. For only in knowing these can we ever hope to experience God’s true grace.
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Casting Off the Oppression of the Race Hustle
Jason L. Riley dismantles race hustlers in his new book: The Affirmative Action Myth.
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Jazz Musicians Should Welcome Trump to the Unwoke Kennedy Center
The freedom embodied in the American jazz tradition is something utterly incompatible with the close-minded diktats of the woke religion.
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Tall Tales and the End of #MeToo
Trauma Plot, a new book by transgender writer Jamie Hood, laments the end of #MeToo but appears to have a real problem with the truth.
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Jonathan Capehart’s WaPo Hissy Fit
The former editorial board member’s memoir is a perfect example of everything that is wrong with journalism today.
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Edna O’Brien’s Real Feminine Mystique
A new film about the famous Irish writer captures her feminine energy and brilliance and, perhaps unintentionally, shows how such qualities are missed by modern feminism.
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Graydon Carter and the ‘Golden Age of Magazines’
The era of original, tough-minded, and seriously cultivated magazine journalism is over, replaced by an age of random digital ephemera.
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Journalism’s ‘Year of Confessions’ Needs a Deeper Confessional
Former Washington Post editor Marty Baron’s acknowledgment that George Stephanopoulos’s journalistic mea culpa was necessary rings hollow.
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What Kash Patel Will Find in the Kavanaugh FBI File
Many of the same characters involved in lawfare against President Trump are implicated in the untruthful ambush of me and Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
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The New Superman: Soaring Clear of Wokeness?
In the wake of recent death blows to wokeism, America is ready for a film that celebrates a fully masculine and fully American character.
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Getting Schooled
The absence of imagination and faith explains everything wrong with American education today.
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An NYT Journalist Melts Down on Musk
Maureen Dowd, who once gushed over Elon Musk, now gives in to her Trump derangement and renounces her former self.
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NYT Reporter Who Regrets Kavanaugh Hit Writes Book Defending the Media
The internal logic of the book David Enrich just wrote does not square with his statements about his own conduct.
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Father James Martin and the Tired Leftism of the Jesuits
The left-wing priest and apologist for LGBTQ sin and abuse reveals the hatred that moves his order’s well-known, and bogus, calls for “tolerance.”
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Watergate and the Media’s Addiction Problem
Watergate is the media’s self-righteous high that’s still too good to quit.
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One Last Climactic Scene: Me vs Matt Damon
The actor’s unfair portrayal of Brett Kavanaugh on Saturday Night Live is making news again and it’s time he owned up to the injustice of it.
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Should I Sue the Washington Post?
There comes a point when enough is enough. The media should be held accountable for their lies.
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NYT Reporter Regrets Kavanaugh Hit: “I Have Learned Some Lessons”
In an age where journalists may finally be held accountable for their lies, we should expect more sudden pangs of conscience.
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‘Seeing’: A Christ-Filled Jazz Record
An interview with jazz pianist Tord Gustavsen about the influences that converged to help him create his masterpiece.
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How to Recapture the Lost ‘Literary Men’
Perhaps the way to get men interested in literature again is to take seriously the topics that appeal to them.
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The Return of Due Process
In the post-Kavanaugh age, Americans are clamoring for a return to due process and the presumption of innocence.
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The Coming Conservative Media Collapse
Leftist corporate media is collapsing, and conservative media is not immune to suffering the same fate.
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‘Mary’: A Beautiful, Realistic Film about the Blessed Mother
Director D. J. Caruso has created a masterful work with a relatable portrayal for faithful and curious audiences alike.
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Conservatives Can Curate Art for Themselves
As the right has discovered, the way around legacy media is to become the media. It can also become the culture’s art curators.
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Washington Post Shake Up Should Shake Out Ruth Marcus
The Post’s op-ed page deputy editor is a dishonest hack and if Jeff Bezos wants to save his paper, she should go.
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The Cowardice of Modern Journalism
More evidence of the diminished standards and dishonorable behavior of America’s fourth estate.
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The End of the American Stasi
The days of feeling cowed by a humorless and censorious elite class of journalists and pundits are over.
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Ben Shapiro’s Sloppy Mistakes Help Harris
In failing to fact check his story on Harris’s involvement in the Kavanaugh affair, Shapiro ends up pushing the liberal narrative.
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Vindicated by Bezos Thirty Years after Leaving The Post
Jeff Bezos’s editorial calling out the bias of his own newspaper comes late in the game, but it is the paper’s last chance to redeem itself.
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Punk Rock Feminist Has Revelation While Stripping
A recent memoir from an ’80s punk rocker touches on themes with surprising resonance for people on the right.
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No Time for Garbage Horror Films
Terrifier 3 is a garbage film, not because it’s in the horror genre, but because it fails to grapple with any serious theme. Fortunately, we have so many alternatives.
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Sheldon Whitehouse’s Sauronian Return
The senator attempts to revisit and relitigate the heinous and thoroughly discredited allegations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and me.
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I’m Going to See a New Play About Me and Christine Blasey Ford
To defend my honor and expose the lies about Ford’s Kavanaugh story, I will show up at the Woolly Mammoth Theater on Oct. 7 and call the American Stasi out.
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Bezos Gets It Backwards: He Should Run Amazon Like the Post and the Post Like Amazon
Jeff Bezos has an employee retention problem at both of his companies: Amazon can’t keep them, and The Washington Post can’t get rid of them.
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‘Exemplum’s’ Paul Roland on Faith and Movie Making
An interview with the young Catholic filmmaker who made a movie with just $10,000 and got a 100 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes.
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‘They Want Government to Be God’
The latest God’s Not Dead is the bravest movie of the fall season, Mark Judge writes. Read his interview with the film's cast.
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Longlegs and the Unkillable Conservatism of Horror Films
Horror films are filled with conservative themes: Good versus evil, the importance of natural law, the reality of sin. 'Longlegs' is fine example.
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Exploding the Left’s ‘Language Virus’ with William S. Burroughs
Inoculating yourself against the language virus of the left requires regular doses of cold, hard truth and, perhaps, the kind of madmen who are not afraid to offer it up on the regular.
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Where are Today’s Athlete Journalists?
The golden age of American journalism featured men of great athletic ability. That they are missing today speaks volumes about why our journalism is so boring.