Mark Judge

Washington, D.C., United States

Writer and Filmmaker at Freelance

Author: "The Devil's Triangle." Former drinker of 100 kegs. https://t.co/kM8KZtLpuc…

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Articles

We need a CIA book club for anti-woke literature

1 day ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Mark Judge

One of the most baffling and depressing realities of life in the digital (and now AI) world is the way young people resist books that challenge their worldview. The problem is particularly bad among liberal, college-aged students. Now, with all the world’s literature available to download on a phone, students still resist reading books that might upset their ideology.
The end of Sally Quinn’s Washington

2 days ago | newcriterion.com | Mark Judge |Robert Erickson |James Bowman |Douglas Murray

Sally Quinn won’t return my emails. Perhaps Quinn, the doyenne of Washington, D.C., and the widow of the Washington Post legend Ben Bradlee, is overwrought. As she recently lamented in The New York Times, her city is under siege:This spring Washington is a city in crisis. Physically, emotionally, psychologically and spiritually. It’s as if the fragrant air were permeated with an invisible poison, as if we were silently choking on carbon monoxide.
The Man Crisis and ‘Iron John’ at 35

3 days ago | chroniclesmagazine.org | Mark Judge

This year marks the 35th anniversary of the publication of poet Robert Bly’s massive bestseller and ’90s cultural phenomenon, Iron John: A Book About Men. Although it’s not mentioned much these days, Iron John deserves a re-evaluation in the face of today’s apparent man crisis. According to reports, men in 2025 are lonely, isolated, and suicidal. They’ve lost their purpose in life.
Engaging With the Culture Must Be the Future of Conservative Media

5 days ago | chroniclesmagazine.org | Mark Judge

I really wish I could stop reading the Sunday New York Times. The political content is pure communism, but it’s the arts coverage that lures me in every week. A recent Sunday edition of the Times offered stories about a new film honoring Nat King Cole, a review of a documentary about the lives of ballerinas, a fantastic profile of the British band Pulp, and an interview with Mia Threapleton, an actress in the new Wes Anderson movie The Phoenician Scheme.
Michael Avenatti is Apologizing to Everyone—Except Brett Kavanaugh - Chronicles

1 week ago | chroniclesmagazine.org | Mark Judge

At a recent resentencing hearing, disgraced lawyer Michael Avenatti did his best to try and sound contrite. He named the people he has scammed, extorted, and stolen from, including makeup celebrity Michelle Phan and a quadriplegic man. However, there was one name missing in Avenatti’s mea culpa: Brett Kavanaugh.
Miley Cyrus and the Apostle’s Creed

2 weeks ago | splicetoday.com | Mark Judge

It was roughly 30 years ago that I walked away from writing for The Washington Post. The editors had started rewriting some of my copy to say things I didn’t mean. One of those instances involved using Easter as a metaphor for a jazz record I was reviewing. I wasn't doing any Holy-Roller preaching, just briefly noted at the end that the themes of resurrection and rebirth on the records bring to mind the Christian story of the resurrection of Jesus.
How the media tore down Britney Spears

2 weeks ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Mark Judge

The new book Waiting for Britney Spears: A True Story, Allegedly by Jeff Weiss is actually a reboot. The first time around, it was called Dante’s Inferno. As with Dante, Waiting for Britney Spears is a trip to hell. Unlike Dante’s wailing of lost souls, hypocrites walking in an endless line, and Satan stuck in a lake of ice, Weiss encounters tabloid journalists, editors with a conscience, and out-of-control celebrities. In 1998, Weiss was unemployed. A gifted writer, he had dreams of a literary life.
Senator Fetterman Humiliated in Wife’s New Book about ‘Radical Tenderness’

2 weeks ago | chroniclesmagazine.org | Mark Judge

It happens near the end of the book. Gisele Barreto Fetterman, the wife of Senator John Fetterman (D-Pa.), had just spent more than 200 pages making the case in Radical Tenderness: The Value of Vulnerability in an Often Unkind World that people need to cry, to express their needs, to open up, and show their soft spots in this cold and hard digital and political world. We also need to treat others with more love and tenderness. Then it happens.
Celebrating Superman’s Jewishness

2 weeks ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Mark Judge

Superman is Jewish. That statement always elicits an unusual reaction when I say it in social situations. Some people look puzzled, some laugh, and a handful tell me I’m crazy. Superman is an alien from another planet, they say. He ain’t Jewish or Catholic or anything. Yet, in his origins, different names, and even his costume, Superman is a deeply Jewish creation.
‘Bring Me Water’: An Appreciation of the Editor’s Art

3 weeks ago | chroniclesmagazine.org | Mark Judge

Adam Bellow is the best editor I’ve ever known. I say that in the first sentence because the editors who shaped and guided my career as a journalist over the past 40 years would tell me to get to the point—to not, as James Wolcott once wrote, “spend a lot of time warming up.”So yes, Adam Bellow was my best editor. Adam is the son of Saul Bellow, arguably the greatest American novelist of the 20th century.