The New Iconoclasm

January 30, 2025 • by Nina Power

The New Iconoclasm

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January 28, 2025

Reading Genesis with Marilynne Robinson

The best part of Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson is Genesis. I make this observation sincerely, intending no disparagement of Robinson’s insightful reading of the first book of the Bible. But it was a surprise and delight to pick up Reading Genesis, thumb through it for the first time, and discover that the last third of its 344 pages consists of the book of Genesis itself. Continue Reading...
January 24, 2025

The Brutalist Is Nothing Less than Brutal

Who is Brady Corbet? In the avalanche of press coverage that has accompanied the release of The Brutalist, which he co-wrote and directed, Corbet has been generally spoken of as an auteur—a filmmaker’s filmmaker, a man with unusual seriousness, ambition, and purpose. Continue Reading...
January 23, 2025

Note to RedNoters: You’re Being Conned

TikTok was developed as a Chinese-government digital product marketed to Western youth and operated under a secretive algorithm. It promoted anti-American narratives—from lavishing praise on Osama bin Laden to pushing transgender hype—but its chief purpose was probably data-mining. Continue Reading...
January 22, 2025

Peggy Noonan’s Revolution

I was a day shy of my eighth birthday when the reassuring words of President Reagan crackled over my family’s radio. Like all Americans, we were traumatized by the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger, which carried, among her passengers, 38-year-old social studies teacher Christy McAuliffe. Continue Reading...
January 21, 2025

The Soul of David Lynch

On January 16, we lost David Lynch, at age 78, just shy of his January 20 birthday. That would be January 20, 1946. Lynch was a Baby Boomer. A child of ’50s America. Continue Reading...
January 15, 2025

Trump II, a New Majority, and the End of Identity Politics

Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 presidential election was undoubtably a referendum on the current political trajectory of the United States. He won both the popular vote, the first Republican since 2004 to do so, and a significant Electoral College majority, securing the largest electoral margin for a Republican since George H.W. Continue Reading...