Commentary

While Cerf was an influential character and perhaps more responsible than anyone for the rise of the modern publishing house, he has a more complicated legacy than one would think.

Cerf City Unknown to most people alive today, Bennett Cerf was at one point one of the most famous people in America. Cerf, who co-founded the publishing firm Random House, was a

I’ve been watching a lot of Modern Family lately, in clips and fragments, scrolling through my feed. I suppose that means I’m telling the algorithm—and, by extension, the studios—that I wish they’d do Modern Family again.

The Devil Memes Prada The way I heard the story was this: When the creators of the hit television comedy Modern Family delivered their terrific pilot episode to the network, they had one big

There is a key belief animating blood-and-soil extremists like Chevalier: that it doesn’t matter what a Palestinian does to a Jew; there is no line and no sin.

The Bottomless Pit of Progressive Primaries The Democratic Party primaries have demonstrated two aspects of the progressive drift toward extremist candidates: the character of the candidates themselves and the speed of the transformation of the party.