A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

The violent response to an attempted murder would have happened regardless of Musk, Lee Hurley writes.

Brainstorm - Richard Scolyer

Like Imperial Japan before us, the United States has substituted tactical and operational planning for strategic thinking.

Why did Joan Didion love Barry Goldwater but hate Ronald Reagan? Historian Sam Tanenhaus helps make sense of Didion's conservatism.

A list of unheralded improvements to ordinary quality-of-life since the 1990s going beyond computers.

The H5N1 virus has now reached every continent on the planet. What does it mean for some of the world’s unique species?

A blog series in which I reread LOTR 50 years after I first read it, age 10, over the winter of 1975-76. Pippin and Merry come as a double act (not exactly ‘dumb and dumber’, but not a million miles from that either) in the Jackson film version of LOTR, providing both light relief and…

World War II has faded into movies, anecdotes, and archives that nobody cares about anymore. Are we finally losing the war?