Video essays have made criticism more accessible and creative, even as the attention economy pushes them toward formula and excess.

The Lawrence County Historical and Genealogical Society announced the 2026 student essay contest winners, who will be honored ...

The emotional outbursts of MAGA men can seem spontaneous and even silly – but we should take them seriously, especially when ...

A high school teacher describes how she teaches her students that disciplinary literacy is more than ‘fancy’ vocabulary.

Until recently, if asked to profile a typical mass shooter, we would have described a middle-aged man who was socially isolated and in despair. He was not in the grip of a politic ...

Did the writers become lazy? Did seeing a perfect AI suggestion make them suppress their own unique voices? The data says no.

This essay argues that the emotional rhetoric of today’s breast cancer discourse—with its emphasis on stoicism and ‘positive thinking’ in the cancer patient, and its use of sympathetic feeling to ...

Here are two very different books about television. One is a great slab of a thing that calls itself a ‘biography’ of the medium, the other is a slim volume that claims to be merely a ‘bingewatcher’s ...