In Compact magazine, Jacob Savage complains that the “white male writer” is becoming an endangered species. But that’s a lazy, self-absorbed narrative that obscures the real threats to literature today.

From Reddit to the New York Times and TMZ, there’s an ongoing effort to squash the wave of popular anger at for-profit healthcare that Luigi Mangione represents.

It’s a testament to human arrogance and cruelty that this is even being considered.

Andrew Cuomo and Bill Clinton both have a lengthy list of sexual misconduct allegations against them. But as long as they’re politically useful, top Democrats don’t seem to care.

In New Orleans, the government forced unhoused people into a grim warehouse—and paid a private contractor $17.5 million for it—while billionaires’ superyachts floated on the Mississippi. How much longer will we tolerate this obscene inequality?

As if the Pennsylvania senator backstabbing the progressive voters who elected him wasn’t bad enough, now he’s directly supporting the MAGA agenda. 

Robert Eggers’ vampire film would be easy to interpret as a right-wing, anti-immigrant manifesto. But dig a little deeper, and you realize that the rich are the real bloodsuckers.

Abuse and cruelty to animals are disturbingly common features of Amish life, just as they are in the secular world. Laws against animal cruelty must be applied to all people without religious exemptions.