Like the 2020s, the “Roaring Twenties” of a century ago witnessed a technological revolution: The rise of the automobile, widespread electrification, and mass production had all transformed everyday ...

The plot follows Romanian Mihai Gheorghiu, his wife Lisbet, and their children, who relocate to Norway, Lisbet’s birthplace, to be closer to her family. The devoutly evangelical family (the film’s ...

Hegel said that a tragic situation is one in which both sides are right. The violence that has recently broken out at French ...

Nordic cultural capital is at an all-time high. But the “Nordic” export is more of a vibe than a specific flavor profile or iconography. Most trendy shopping districts will have a Nordic concept café ...

On May 30, 2020, five days after the death of George Floyd, the head of a prominent DC-area think tank issued a stentorian condemnation of the killing and the bigotry she said had enabled it. Echoing ...

Aaron Sibarium is a staff writer at the <em>Washington Free Beacon</em>.

In the wake of Kamala Harris’s defeat in 2024, one heard often that Democrats needed to focus on class rather than identity. But what exactly does it mean to focus on class? And what class is it that ...

In the last week of July, two incidents involving disruptive Chinese fans of a genre of Asian media triggered something close to a crisis in international relations. Security personnel had forcibly ...

One sunny day in June, I opened up my university email, which I only do occasionally now that I am retired, to see an email marked “confidential” in my inbox. In it, the deputy vice-chancellor at my ...

The future world statesman, in full military uniform, leaps athletically on to the table. Then he reaches up into the ceiling lamp of his hotel room and pulls out a concealed microphone. It has been ...

We live in an age of inversions. With class inversion, college-educated professionals have moved inexorably leftwards, while once left-leaning blue-collar workers have veered to the right. A few years ...