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Back to SearchRichard Linklater on His Two New Films, “Blue Moon” and “Nouvelle Vague”
Richard Linklater is one of the most admired directors working today, and yet moviegoers may admire him for very different things. There are early co…
7 months ago
How the Trump Administration Made Higher Education a Target
The swiftness and severity with which the Trump Administration has tried to impose its will on higher education came as a shock to many, not least un…
7 months ago
John Carpenter Picks Three Favorite Film Scores
The filmmaker John Carpenter has a whole shelf of cult classics: “They Live,” “The Thing,” “Escape from New York,” “Halloween,” and so many more. And…
7 months, 1 week ago
Zohran Mamdani Says He's Ready for Donald Trump
Next month, New York City may elect as its next mayor a man who was pretty much unknown to the broader public a year ago. Zohran Mamdan, who is curre…
7 months, 1 week ago
How Lionel Richie Mastered the Love Song
Lionel Richie has been making music for fifty years. He has sold more than a hundred million albums, his hits too numerous to list, and he has endear…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
A Conservative Professor on How to Fix Campus Culture
Robert P. George is not a passive observer of the proverbial culture wars; he’s been a very active participant. As a Catholic legal scholar and philo…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Jimmy Kimmel and the Power of Public Pressure
The Political Scene’s Washington Roundtable—the staff writers Jane Mayer, Susan Glasser, and Evan Osnos—discuss how, in the wake of the reinstatement…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Ezra Klein’s Big-Tent Vision of the Democratic Party
The author and podcaster Ezra Klein may be only forty-one years old, but he’s been part of the political-culture conversation for a long time. He was…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
The Cartoonist Liana Finck Picks Three Favorite Children’s Books
Liana Finck is a cartoonist and an illustrator who has contributed to The New Yorker since 2015. She is the author of several books, including the gr…
8 months ago
Is The 2026 Election Already in Danger?
“The Constitution gives the states the power to set the time, place, and manner of elections,” the election lawyer Marc Elias points out. “It gives t…
8 months ago