“No summary could do justice to the parade of oversimplification, decontextualized pseudo-astonishment, one-sided gotcha-ism, casuistry, and moral lassitude on display in the conversation.” Matthew Walther skewers Martyr Made compactmag.com/article/the-ri…

For Matthew Walther, making his COMPACT debut, the Tucker-Cooper interview was symptomatic of what Walther calls “post-literate history.” A phenomenon as depressing as its name implies. Must-read. compactmag.com/article/the-ri…

In light of the Carlson-Cooper-Churchill affair, Matthew Walther explores the future of historiography—academic and popular—in the age of the podcast: compactmag.com/article/the-ri…

The New York Intellectuals---Normal Podhoretz, Midge Decter, the two Irvings (Kristol and Howe), etc.---blended Jewish high literature and ideas with Americanized masculinity. Have the city and its cultural life lost something in becoming less masculine? compactmag.com/article/the-fe…

The Rise of Post-Literate History | Compact compactmag.com/article/the-ri…

The Feminization of New York City | Compact compactmag.com/article/the-fe…

Why everybody is so nice in New York City today - my latest in Compact - "a new spirit of civility animating its public culture" compactmag.com/article/the-fe…

What does it mean that the primary medium of popular revisionist history is no longer books and essays but podcasts and tweets? Matthew Walther on this week’s viral replay of the Historikerstreit: compactmag.com/article/the-ri…

Stephen Adubato rounds up this week at COMPACT and offers his takes on the potential resurgence of campus encampments and on anti-traditional right-wingers Stephen G. Adubato substackfwd.xyz/?url=https://c…

I rounded up this week at COMPACT and offered some hot takes on the potential resurgence of campus encampments and on Trump’s pro natalist but not so pro life remarks Stephen G. Adubato substackfwd.xyz/?url=https://c…

Interesting and gloomy piece about the decline of historiography in the post-literate world. compactmag.com/article/the-ri…

"This future that we should find disturbing: one in which history as we know it will sooner or later cease to exist; it will first go unread, then it will cease to be written, before, finally, disappearing altogether." Matthew Walther in COMPACT compactmag.com/article/the-ri…

As is often the case with right-leaning culture warriors, their reaction to left-wing rhetoric fails to adequately critique its errors and to propose an alternative view of real substance—rendering them the mere flipside of the same neoliberal coin substackfwd.xyz/?url=https://c…

“Human beings were never intended to be trapped in a house with just their parents.” Paglia fears that the “claustrophobic cell of the modern nuclear family” has given rise to psychological fragility. substackfwd.xyz/?url=https://c…

The top-heavy, overly bureaucratic structure of universities is perhaps one of the greatest hindrances to devising quality curricula as well as to students’ intellectual and psychological maturation. substackfwd.xyz/?url=https://c…

"Some critics of gentrification call it the suburbanization of New York. But a better way to describe it might be the civilization of the city, with a new spirit of civility animating its public culture" thank God Bay Ridge has been spared Aaron M. Renn 🇺🇸 compactmag.com/article/the-fe…

"People in Gotham are very nice today....I was expecting people to say things like, “You, f-ing g, if you do that again I’ll f you up.” But the entire time I lived there, only one person ever yelled at me like that." it's hard to explain to non ny-ers how riveting this can be

On the dim prospects for history in a post-book culture compactmag.com/article/the-ri…

“The top-heavy, overly bureaucratic structure of universities is perhaps one of the greatest hindrances to devising quality curricula as well as to students’ intellectual and psychological maturation.” Read Stephen G. Adubato’s latest newsletter: compactmag.substack.com/p/on-campus-en…

Glad to publish this fine piece by Matthew Walther x.com/matthewwalther…