Is Gen Z Really Saving Hollywood?

Sometime after Jack Black hollered “chicken jockey” in 2025’s A Minecraft Movie, and before The Odyssey drove the masses mad with aspect-ratio anxiety, Hollywood finally felt seen—and saved—by Gen Z.…

Let Them Eat Gold

When you approach the freshly gilded twin statues near the Lincoln Memorial, there is no mistaking that they are gold. Very, very gold. Distractingly gold—or, more precisely, covered in 23.75-karat…

Which Screen Is the ‘Good Screen’ Now?

The videos that Instagram suggests in my never-ending “For You” feed are usually of a constellation of women. They’re strangers, but I call them “my girls.” One of them is…

I Can’t Be the Only One Who Loves Dulles

Source: YouTube Summary A couple of years ago, squinting into the morning sun on a Dulles International Airport people mover after a red-eye from London, I found myself chatting with…

The People’s Troubadour

Source: YouTube Summary In one of my favorite videos of the singer-songwriter Glen Hansard, who died this week at the age of 56, he is standing in a small backyard…

Nature’s Most Extraordinary Stories

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Look Closer: David Hockney’s Rules of Beauty

© Estate of David Hockney. Edition of 75. Photograph by Richard Schmidt. David Hockney, Contrejour in the French Style, 1974. Etching, soft-ground etching, aquatint. David Hockney, who died at 88…

The Two Great Threats to Truth

Truth is under threat today from two opposing impulses. The first is subjectivism, or relativism: the denial of the existence of objective truth or the possibility of ever attaining it.…

Fauci’s Return to Capitol Hill

Source: YouTube Summary Editor’s Note: Washington Week With The Atlantic is a partnership between NewsHour Productions, WETA, and The Atlantic airing every Friday on PBS stations nationwide. Check your local…

Schengen’s Greatest Failure

In the summer of 1985, representatives from five Western European countries met aboard a riverboat in Schengen, a wine-making village in Luxembourg, to celebrate the removal of checkpoints at their…