Neal Pollack

Austin, New York

Author and Writer at Freelance

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Memories of the 12 DAY WAR

4 days ago | thespectator.com | Neal Pollack

President Trump didn’t start the war. But if we’re to believe the greatest social-media post of all time, he sure finished it, and quickly. Either way, he definitely branded it, and in geopolitics, as in business, branding is everything. If you break the terms of the brand, Israel and Iran have found out, the President is going to whup you, at least verbally.
Memories of the 12 DAY WAR

4 days ago | spectator.com.au | Neal Pollack

President Trump didn’t start the war. But if we’re to believe the greatest social-media post of all time, he sure finished it, and quickly. Either way, he definitely branded it, and in geopolitics, as in business, branding is everything. If you break the terms of the brand, Israel and Iran have found out, the President is going to whup you, at least verbally.
Donald’s divine inspiration

5 days ago | thespectator.com | Neal Pollack

President Trump appeared in the long hallway Saturday night, flanked by his Three Sons – J.D., Pete and Little Marco – to let us know he’d done the big violence in Iran.
Donald’s divine inspiration

5 days ago | spectator.com.au | Neal Pollack

President Trump appeared in the long hallway Saturday night, flanked by his Three Sons – J.D., Pete and Little Marco – to let us know he’d done the big violence in Iran. It was a somber moment, a war moment, though, as Trump said on Truth Social after he’d ordered the dropping of the Mother of All Bombs deep into the heart of old Persia, “NOW IS THE TIME FOR PEACE.
Book and Film Globe

1 week ago | bookandfilmglobe.com | Neal Pollack

This post marks the end of my seven-year tenure as editor-in-chief of Book and Film Globe. I, Neal Pollack, the Greatest Living American Writer, am leaving the only job I’ve had this century to become Senior Editor of The U.S. edition of The Spectator, the world’s oldest magazine. It’s exciting and terrifying and also definitive proof that you can reinvent and revive your career after you receive your AARP card. What a run we’ve had here.
Book and Film Globe

1 week ago | bookandfilmglobe.com | Neal Pollack

‘Materialists’, written and directed by Celine Song, is technically a romantic comedy, but the movie neglects to include much humor. It feels strangely sour and grumpy, as though it were an adaptation of an article by a New York Times writer going through a particularly traumatic breakup. Song seems to want to make a statement on The Way We Live Now, but Materialists is oddly out of touch, and often seems like it takes place in an alternate reality.
Book and Film Globe

3 weeks ago | bookandfilmglobe.com | Neal Pollack

‘Mountainhead,’ the new feature on HBO/Max from ‘Succession‘ creator Jesse Armstrong, isn’t a movie that exists to entertain mass audiences. Its goal, rather, is to become fodder for podcasts hosted by The Ringer and Vulture, and, somewhere down the food chain, publications like us. It’s premium content for people who think they’re premium but aren’t, for viewers like you, pure protein for the withered imagination of the chattering classes. Any other nutrients it provides are incidental.
Book and Film Globe

3 weeks ago | bookandfilmglobe.com | Katie Smith |Neal Pollack

A Lyrical Novel Of Sad Realtors And Broken Families
2025 Cadillac Optiq Review: A Surprisingly Fresh and Fun Electric SUV from a Legacy Brand

3 weeks ago | observer.com | Neal Pollack

The 2025 Cadillac Optiq. Courtesy Cadillac/GM-DESIGN“You’ve got to try these new electric Cadillacs,” a semi-reliable source told me on a recent car press trip. But I was skeptical.
Book and Film Globe

1 month ago | bookandfilmglobe.com | Robert Dean |Neal Pollack

TV’s former golden child might be fading