Folk Culture

For Edward Said, to be Palestinian was to be an exile. In 1979 he wrote, “Behind every Palestinian there is...

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Bing Crosby’s performance of “White Christmas” has, in recent years, sounded to me like an elegy. Some people might still...

This October, in the closing days of the presidential election, the podcaster Joe Rogan said something extraordinary. He had just...

Donald Trump’s selection of Pete Hegseth to lead the Defense Department signals the incoming administration’s intention to enact significant changes...

Recently, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government announced the “rescission” of a 1991 law officially rehabilitating past victims of political tyranny....

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This morning, I had an unsettling experience. I was invited onto MSNBC’s Morning Joe to talk from a studio in...

No federal agency is as hated as the IRS, and perhaps no federal agency deserves so much hate.The average American...

Hunter Biden has lived a troubled life, and faced years in prison—until Sunday, when his father rescued him, issuing a...