Celebrating holidays in a strange land
Plus: Tucker Carlson and that other new venture in liberal education
By Micah Mattix
Podcast: The first Thanksgiving
Micah Mattix is joined by guest Dr. Thomas Kidd to discuss how the pilgrims celebrated the first Thanksgiving in 1621.
By Micah Mattix
Why I didn’t start a Substack
It has its limits, especially if you’re writing about books and arts
By Micah Mattix
The pleasures of detective fiction
Plus: why the so-called literary elite don’t know their classics
By Micah Mattix
The miracle drug called poetry
Plus: Crime and Punishment, the return of Prufrock and more
By Micah Mattix
Lionel Trilling against cancel culture
The great liberal critic would have detested the left’s attempts to cleanse art and history
By Micah Mattix
