Doctor Sleep by Mike Flanagan

Arts & Culture, History

Sandefur’s well-trained and wide-ranging mind, brought to bear on a subject of deep personal interest, has delivered prose that is both graceful and direct. What emerges from his biographical portrait is the closest any of us now can get to one of the great humanistic minds of the previous century.

Arts & Culture, Book & Movie Reviews

Doctor Sleep is one of the best horror films of the past thirty years, primarily because of its explicit and accurate identification of the nature of evil—and of the ability of good to overcome it.

Arts & Culture

One way to deepen one’s appreciation for the achievements of veterans is by glimpsing what the world might be like if those who fought for freedom in World War II had not won.

Arts & Culture

Stevie Ray Vaughan left lasting monuments to his musical genius—and a lesson about the importance of focusing on the important things in life.

Ayn Rand & Objectivism, History, Philosophy, Politics & Rights

In the tradition of Ayn Rand’s essay “For the New Intellectual,” Osborne explains that knowing the history of how we got where we are today can teach us what we need to do to reestablish America’s original spirit—and the freedoms that flow from it.

Arts & Culture

There are a lot of bad horror movies, books, and games out there—but if you take the time to unearth some of the good ones, you just might find that they can make your life a little less scary.

Arts & Culture

Robert Eggers’s lovingly crafted The Witch and The Lighthouse conjure the eerie beauty of the New England idiom to evoke a few chills.

Arts & Culture

A. E. Stallings witnesses every day the juxtaposition of ancient and modern, and her work combines the haunting beauty of Greek myth with the daily occupations of modern life.