My boyfriend and I decided — assisted by the earlier consumption of wine — to watch the new movie KPop Demon Hunters. And it was fantastic. thoughts in National Review about the movie's surprising amount of substance and cultural commentary: nationalreview.com/2025/07/kpop-d…

Don’t judge something by its cover, or its stunningly juvenile title. | Abigail Anthony trib.al/kVxXTS6

While Wheeldon does fairly accurately portray the narrative progression of Carroll’s story, he largely neglects the most important theme: chaos. Reviewed the Royal Ballet's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland for The New Criterion: newcriterion.com/dispatch/more-…

“Wheeldon’s Alice is having fun, whereas Carroll’s Alice was frustrated, even ‘offended’.” Read “More than a whimsy?” by Abigail Anthony. Abigail Anthony newcriterion.com/dispatch/more-…

Dolce & Gabbana just did a Catholic couture runway show and it is INSANELY COOL

"For nearly two years now, I’ve hardly been able to do anything. Writing articles proved extremely difficult, while my books went unread. Both dirty laundry and dishes piled up, for each morning I woke up burdened by the weight of an unresolved question: What does the Crab Museum

For the rest, read Abigail Anthony National Review: Invertebrate Intifada nationalreview.com/corner/inverte…

“George Orwell’s work has provided the material for a million memes.” I am shocked, even slightly horrified, by the first sentence in this introduction to an Orwell essay collection.

The Children’s Hospital Los Angeles closed its child-focused Center for Transyouth Health and Development due to “severe impacts” of the Trump administration’s policies. | Abigail Anthony & James Lynch trib.al/1WARcAn

Every morning, I was burdened by an unresolved question: What does the Crab Museum — known as “Europe’s first and only museum dedicated to the world of the decapod” — think of the Israel-Hamas war? Finally, the Crab Museum took a position. National Review nationalreview.com/corner/inverte…

The closure is effective Tuesday, July 22. Abigail Anthony & James Lynch report National Review: nationalreview.com/news/l-a-child…

screenshots I took from the boyfriend blacklist app that is supposedly impossible to take screenshots from

Under the UK's Online Safety Act, platforms have to remove and "protect users" from "illegal content," including content "relating" to "illegal immigration."

From Abigail Anthony at National Review, a must-read piece. Both a harrowing return to the nightmarish day of the Southport, UK stabbings, and also a reminder of how the UK is becoming a dystopian information and speech environment: nationalreview.com/2025/07/scene-…

Inconvenient details — Axel's history with knife crime, his ties to Islam, his arsenal of weapons, his plans for biological warfare — have been suppressed, even forgotten. Remembering Southport (and the uncomfortable facts) a year later National Review : nationalreview.com/2025/07/scene-…

MY OXFORD YEAR (2025) contains precisely ONE good joke (chippy called ‘The Codleian’).