Learning How To Make The ‘Benedict Option’ A Reality
Leah Libresco’s new book, ‘Building the Benedict Option: A Guide to Gathering Two or Three Together in His Name,’ offers lots of practical advice for how you can build and strengthen your Christian communities.
30 Years Later, The Traveling Wilburys Debut Record Holds Up As Extraordinary
The Wilburys were the ultimate rock supergroup: Petty, George Harrison, Roy Orbison, Bob Dylan, and Jeff Lynne. What a stunning collection of talent.
The Power Of Loretta Lynn’s New Album Echoes That Of Her Career
If ever there were a time to elevate Loretta Lynn, it’s now. And CMT crowns Loretta Lynn ‘Artist of a Lifetime’ at its annual Artists of the Year broadcast tonight.
Why Maggie Rogers Sings Straight To Her Fans
Maggie Rogers is pulling back the curtain on her viral rise to success in her single ‘Lights On’ and her Instagram feed reposts of fan covers.
Why Open Borders Are Bad For America’s Immigrants
In ‘Melting Pot or Civil War? A Son of Immigrants Makes the Case Against Open Borders,’ Reihan Salam says America must make smart investments in alleviating global poverty as it moves toward a more skills-based immigration system.
Why ‘Mansfield Park’ Was Jane Austen’s Best Novel
Modern readers aren’t quite as interested in a tale where virtue is rewarded and vice punished, but it’s her best regardless.
Reese Witherspoon’s New Book Proves She Knows A Thing Or Two About Southern Charm
The famous actress’s new book, ‘Whiskey in a Teacup: What Growing Up in the South Taught Me About Life, Love, and Baking Biscuits,’ could teach us all something about manners.
How Jane Austen Pulled Off A Feat Of Genius In ‘Northanger Abbey’
In her satirical take on Gothic fiction, Austen pokes fun at some of the overwrought conventions prevalent at the time, but is careful not to condemn the genre as a whole.
America Is Abdicating Its Role In Global Leadership
A new book by Robert Kagan, ‘The Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World,’ argues that the liberal world order is unraveling at a frightening pace, hastened in no small measure by its chief custodian and beneficiary.
10 Gloomy Radiohead Songs To Celebrate Thom Yorke’s Birthday
Think of it as both a thematically unified playlist and a career overview that highlights a handful of Radiohead’s greatest songs.
‘Girl, Wash Your Face’ Is Of No Comfort To Hurting Women, But This Is
If the idea of another self-help book leaves you feeling tired before you have even turned one page, try some Jesus-help instead.
This Book Uncovers The Secret History Of World Intelligence Services
Cambridge professor Christopher Andrew has written ‘The Secret World: A History of Intelligence,’ a book that despite a few flaws, proves to be a definitive account of the role of clandestine intelligence gathering played in world history.
Why Apple Music Needs To Sync Play Counts Between Devices, Stat
This is insane, Apple. You’ve gone and ruined my perfectly curated playlists. Isn’t information in the cloud supposed to be identical no matter where you access it?
How Bitter Political Disputes Made America Great
In Jay Cost’s latest book, ‘The Price of Greatness,’ the scholar and journalist lays out a compelling analysis of the feud between Alexander Hamilton and James Madison showing that their disagreements resulted in a synthesis of differing opinions that allowed our early republic to thrive.
Jane Austen Explains Why Real Life Is More Mysterious Than Fiction
Throughout ‘Northanger Abbey,’ Jane Austen explains why an untempered imagination can be misleading, and why real life is more mysterious than fiction.
Jane Austen’s ‘Northanger Abbey’ Illustrates Why Manners Matter
Jane Austen finds value in the social conventions of her day throughout the pages of ‘Northanger Abbey,’ because manners do matter.
The Liberal Defense Of Campus Free Speech Is Admirable But Inadequate
In Erwin Chemerinsky and Howard Gillman’s ‘Free Speech on Campus,’ two liberal academics make an admirable defense of free speech but are ultimately too charitable to the leftist radicals who dominate campus debates.
Spaniard Defaces 15th-Century Religious Statue In Name Of ‘Restoration’
As you may have seen in the news, there’s been another art ‘restoration’ incident, this time in the village church at Rañadorio, in the northwest Spanish region of Asturias.
Ben Folds Offers Hilariously Hallucinogenic Resistance ‘Storytelling’
Highlighted by an original Ben Folds song about Rod Rosenstein, the WaPo feature offers a play, some poetry, some illustrations, a graphic novel, and tote bag from a 2011 PBS drive.
Reading The Great Books Well Should Transcend Moralism
Karen Swallow Prior’s ‘On Reading Well’ offers some excellent advice for drawing moral lessons from literature, but sometimes great art proves so ambiguous that drawing pat conclusions is difficult.
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