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March 12, 2026

How Frankenstein and The Bride! Make the Battle of the Sexes Worse

Adapting Merry Shelley’s classic novel Frankenstein is practically a tradition in Hollywood. As is the freedom in adapting it: Consider the Universal Monsters’ classic, which turned the original’s well-spoken creation of mad scientist Victor Frankenstein into a grunting monster with neck bolts, to making of him a comedic figure (Young Frankenstein) to transforming the whole tale into a cheesy supernatural action flick (I, Frankenstein). Continue Reading...
March 11, 2026

The Teacher as Revolutionary

Michael S. Rose’s The Subversive Art of a Classical Education: Reclaiming the Mind in an Age of Speed, Screens, and Skill-Drills is the latest addition to the growing genre of books about classical education. Continue Reading...
March 10, 2026

How Sabbath Laws Reveal the Moral Logic of Markets

Modern arguments about wealth and inequality often presuppose that Scripture offers little guidance beyond a general call to generosity, after which technocrats may improvise distribution schemes according to political fashion. Consequently, biblical economics becomes a set of pious slogans rather than a coherent moral vision. Continue Reading...
March 05, 2026

Hamnet: Family Life in the 21st Century

Chloé Zhao received four nominations and won two Oscars, Best Director and Best Picture, for Nomadland (2020) and has since become the major female director in the English-speaking world. Her new movie, Hamnet, about William Shakespeare losing his son and (ostensibly) writing his most famous tragedy, has been nominated for eight awards. Continue Reading...
February 26, 2026

Bring Back Your Dead

One of the strangest of many strange 21st-century phenomena is the adoption of the ideas of 20th-century left-wing thinkers by the New Right. From Marcuse and Baudrillard to Jameson and Camus, left thinkers have exerted significant influence on the contemporary postliberal and even anti-liberal right. Continue Reading...
February 25, 2026

Why the Woke Think the Way They Do

Leftists used to focus on economics, but today they fixate on nonbinary genders, microaggressions, and pronouns. Woke progressivism may seem silly, but Jordan B. Cooper, in his new book, Makers of the Modern Mind: A Guide to the Thinkers Who Formed the Modern Left, shows it has deep roots in modern philosophy. Continue Reading...
February 24, 2026

Who Built the USSR?

(This article appears in the Winter 2026 issue of the Coolidge Review.) One of the epic stories of World War II is how Russian troops held the Stalingrad tractor factory against repeated assaults by German units from August to October 1942. Continue Reading...