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1 week ago | 
aei.org | Christopher J. Scalia |Sally Satel |Frederick M. Hess |Yuval Levin
For decades, American conservatives have lamented that the nation’s arts and culture are dominated by leftist perspectives. This narrow ideology has diminished the range, vitality, and quality of the fine arts while leaving audiences increasingly bored or alienated by high culture. But right-of-center artists, institutional leaders, and donors have failed to create a culture that celebrates their own traditions, religious beliefs, and civic vision.
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2 months ago | 
aei.org | Timothy Carney |Christopher J. Scalia |Yuval Levin |Brad Wilcox
Read the PDF. IntroductionAmerica is in a baby bust, with birth rates hitting record lows and still falling. Young Americans are getting married later and less. Meanwhile, parents face rising stress, and children suffer an epidemic of anxiety. The family is the fundamental building block of a society, as the cell is of an organism. A nation with increasingly fewer families has less social cohesion and less of a future.
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2 months ago | 
thedispatch.com | Michael Warren |Christopher J. Scalia |Luis Parrales |Jonah Goldberg
Culture Can the show created to spoof live TV survive in an age of streaming and short video? Published February 15, 2025 Lorne Michaels once said that the best cast of NBC’s Saturday Night Live was the one from when you, the viewer, were in high school. At the risk of contradicting the man who created and has helmed the show for most of its 50-year history, I’ll note this is plainly incorrect.
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2 months ago | 
aei.org | John Bailey |Michael Horn |Yuval Levin |Christopher J. Scalia
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the flawed nature of how American education delivers instruction to students, and the continued downward trend of National Assessment of Educational Progress scores confirm schools need to do better. Many have argued that new modes of instruction that better fit the diversity of students’ needs would help right the ship. But what would these look like in practice?
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
aei.org | John Podhoretz |With Yuval Levin |Christopher J. Scalia |Yuval Levin
Not so long ago, Americans frequently engaged with art and literature and enjoyed culturally significant events. Whether people were running to the record store, movie theatre, or bookseller, new releases prompted deep anticipatory excitement. But over the past generation, fewer works of art have become cultural touchstones. What happened? Why does our art seem to matter less? Why don’t critics and audiences alike react to art as we once did?
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
aei.org | Christopher J. Scalia
Two weeks ago, the British House of Commons voted in favor of a bill that, according to the BBC, “would allow terminally ill adults expected to die within six months to seek help to end their own life.” The final vote was 330 to 275. This news immediately turned my mind to the P.D. James novel The Children of Men, published in 1993.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Jessica Schurz |Luis Parrales |Christopher J. Scalia |Robert Bellafiore
Taylor Swift’s tour was a worldwide spectacle—and paradoxically intimate. Published December 7, 2024 After 149 nights of sequin-filled stadiums across five continents, Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour will come to an end Sunday night in Vancouver, British Columbia. Whether you’ve long been Swift-fatigued or are rewatching videos in the merch you bought at your third show, the conclusion of Swift’s Eras Tour marks the end of a global spectacle. Starting with its economic impact.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Jeffery Tyler Syck |Wilson Shirley |Luis Parrales |Christopher J. Scalia
The musical isn’t a rallying cry for individualism—it’s an exploration of casual and callous evil. Published December 7, 2024 When The Wizard of Oz premiered in 1939, no one could have guessed its cultural impact. A fun but largely trite kid’s movie sustained by stunning visuals and heart-wrenching music, it nonetheless became an instant box office success that sparked a plethora of spin-off media.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
aei.org | Christopher J. Scalia
Chris’s guest is the poet and fiction writer Sally Thomas, who shares a few of her poems and discusses some of her stories. Sally and Chris also talk about her development as a writer, why she enjoys writing formal poetry, and what she does when her short-story characters won’t leave her alone. Sally is the author of The Blackbird and Other Stories (Wiseblood, 2024) and the forthcoming poetry collection Among the Living (Able Muse Press, TBA).
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Christopher J. Scalia
Weeks after President-elect Donald Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, pundits and politicos are still looking at the returns to see how he pulled it off. For people of a certain age — specifically, those born between 1965 and 1980 — a particularly interesting question is: Why did Trump do so well with the cohort known as Generation X? A generation known for being slackers turned out in big numbers to support Trump.
