1+ day, 18+ hour ago  (175+ words) The Perfect Moment: God, Sex, Art, and the Birth of America's Culture Wars by Isaac Butler. Bloomsbury Publishing. 384 pages. June 2026. For Butler, the First Culture War is as an existential conflict over two principles: artistic freedom of expression and public…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago  (198+ words) Grossman showed the Soviet soldiers their own dignity, and his propaganda value would not be lost on the authorities. This music of destruction sounds strangely like the factory's peacetime work. It could be the sounds of riveting, or steam hammers…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (302+ words) Pause. The yogi closes their eyes. Against the madness, Israelis reach for equanimity through their bodies. They control their breathing to control their persons; the body is the first site of control. The colonizer understands this better than most. For…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (142+ words) Conventional gender identity clinics were often designed not to provide care but to curtail it. BGIS did not hold itself as separate from feminist or gay and lesbian concerns. When medicine and advocacy are increasingly operating from a risk minimization…...

1+ mon, 11+ hour ago  (684+ words) To understand the significance of Boca Chica, a stretch of coastal prairie, scrub forest, and dune on the far southern edge of Texas, I recommend a road trip along the Gulf Coast'or what's left of it. You can walk or…...

1+ mon, 11+ hour ago  (134+ words) A member of the Morgan banking clan opined that anarchists should be shot like mad dogs before their "rabies" could further spread. These political prosecutions are just more evidence of the Trump administration growing canines where the radical left is…...

1+ mon, 11+ hour ago  (404+ words) And I like Texas beef. At the bistro, I ordered the filet to satisfy a mild craving for chewy, bloody meat. Apart from the paper flag and a sheen of grease, it was undecorated and just beyond medium rare. "Mm-hmm....

1+ mon, 11+ hour ago  (142+ words) Northern Ireland wants to emulate the worst parts of Texas and the American South more broadly. The orange man opened the door for the Orangemen. The notion that the Scots-Irish created the United States as we know it eclipses the…...

1+ mon, 11+ hour ago  (567+ words) The Baffler Doth the Lone Star State protest too much? There might not be much daylight between the Texan ideal of self-sufficiency and the clich" held by outsiders that the once independent republic is provincial and inward-looking. As is often…...

1+ mon, 11+ hour ago  (279+ words) In 2014, I Landed my dream job. I didn't realize it would involve desperate strangers asking me to save them from demonic oppression. Since I was an expert on demonology, she said, I must believe in demons. The voice said, "Hi,…...