4+ week, 9+ hour ago   (927+ words) Re “Nolan’s Trojan Horse,” by Ezra Klein (column, Aug. 5): Mr. Klein is right to say that Mr. Nolan “smuggled” the message in without most viewers even noticing. Most of the film’s audience, including Elon Musk and even the renowned “Odyssey…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (1866+ words) This is an edited transcript of “The Ezra Klein Show.” You can listen to the episode wherever you get your podcasts. I’ve known Ross Douthat a long time. We were bloggers back when the Earth was young. Then I watched…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (371+ words) Khadijah Farrakhan, longtime wife of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, died Saturday, the Nation of Islam has announced. She was 90. “Mother Khadijah” worked alongside her provocative and charismatic husband for decades, helping lead their religious and sociopolitical movement, which…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (442+ words) The 1970s were thick with New Age spiritual fads and movements, from the benign (crystals) to the unspeakably toxic and cultic (Jonestown). Somewhere in the middle of that woo-woo spectrum lies the work of Carlos Castaneda....

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (404+ words) Vice President JD Vance took aim at late Pope Francis and the Vatican in his new book, describing the meeting with the Roman Catholic Church’s leader who died roughly 24 hours after the conversation, according to The Washington Post. Vance described…...