Browsing: Culture Desk

Steven Spielberg returns to blockbuster filmmaking with Disclosure Day, fifty years after Jaws created the commercial template Hollywood still uses.

Scott McTominay’s acrobatic goal against Denmark sent Scotland to its first World Cup in 27 years, ending a drought that shaped a generation of fans.

Rachel Goldberg-Polin’s memoir “When We See You Again” documents her son Hersh’s 330-day captivity in Gaza and his murder. A raw account of public grief.

America’s official children’s book advocate called most kids’ books “crud.” But poor literacy rates trace to access and infrastructure, not editorial quality.

A question hangs over the Commonwealth Short Story Prize: did AI write a winning entry? The real issue is what it reveals about how we judge fiction.

Danielle Allen’s *Radical Duke* argues the American Revolution was propelled by a transnational elite, centered on a rowdy English nobleman an ocean away.

Trump’s historic low approval ratings should be a Democratic windfall. But many in the party are anxious about what winning the House and Senate in November actually means.

Morgan Bassichis’s “Can I Be Frank?” and Dylan MarcAurele’s “Heated Rivalry: The Unauthorized Musical” turn gay fandom into sharp, moving theater.

California’s 2026 jungle primary puts Becerra, Steyer, and Bass in direct competition for governor and LA mayor, with tight margins and high stakes.

In 1988, Scorsese’s *The Last Temptation of Christ* became the test case for a new conservative playbook — one that still shapes culture wars today.