In October of 2024, conservative pundit Ben Shapiro offered an interesting observation about the American presidential election of 2000. In the final days of the campaign, the big bombshell had been ...

EssayLegacy Apr 13, 2025 13 minutes Strawberry Fields Forever: Amie Whittemore’s “Nest of Matches” By Johnny Payne ...

Note from the Publisher: This piece belongs to the Merion West Legacy series, referring to articles and poems published between 2016 up to Spring 2025.

“And so things continue as before, because in a post-historical era, sprinkled with German-Hegelian state worship and a view of oneself as the summit of civilizational development, there is no need to ...

Note from the Publisher: This piece belongs to the Merion West Legacy series, referring to articles and poems published between 2016 up to Spring 2025.

The Children’s Commissioner for England recently released a report on the July, 2024 riots that followed the horrific murders of three young girls at a dance class in Southport. The riots, which ...

“I envisioned myself old on a mountain hike/a soft breeze lifting my long white hair/I thought I’d live ‘til ninety-five” ...

In listing the “non-literary” analogs for form in certain kinds of contemporary poetry, Jonathan Holden identifies a way in which contemporary writers recover lyric, while pushing it in newer ...

(A 2006 image of the border barrier between Tijuana and San Diego/Tomascastelazo) “However, it seems unlikely that this is because neoconservatism inherently favors open borders, as some critics have ...

EssayLegacy Jan 17, 2025 7 minutes How Close Are We to Escaping Dying? The Current State of Cryonics By Natasha Vita-More ...

EssayLegacy Jan 16, 2025 12 minutes What James Lindsay Gets Wrong about “Right-Wing Postliberalism” By Daniel Addison ...

Contributing editor Jonathan Church reflects on the most important essays the magazine published in 2024.