Culture Trust

Columns

The Marxists Are Coming

Mathias Fuelling

June 10, 2025

A historian excavates the subterranean legacy of American Marxism.

Fisher of Men

Ed Simon

June 04, 2025

Revolt is a thing of the stomach.

The Billionaire’s Happy Meal

Abe Beame

May 29, 2025

Tilman Fertitta’s grim vision for the future of dining out.

Miss Thing

Sasha Frere-Jones

May 28, 2025

Go back to bed, you self-absorbed naughty girly.

Sister, Sister

Jessica Fletcher

May 20, 2025

Were the Paget twins really unjustly overlooked?

The Time of Return

Rhian Sasseen

May 19, 2025

Can we escape history, or are we forever at its mercy?

W.A.S.T.E. Not

Madeleine Adams

May 15, 2025

A​​ll civilization is an attempt to make waste disappear.

War Stories

Charles McFarlane

May 09, 2025

Hollywood’s depictions of the global war on terror have been a mixed bag at best.

Small Fry

Walker Rutter-Bowman

May 07, 2025

Like treated beef, Claire Baglin’s novel is a lean, finely textured thing.

Quarantine the Past

John Semley

May 06, 2025

A superlative Gen X treatment on what may be the ultimate Gen X band.

Heteropessimism of the Intellect

Arielle Isack

April 25, 2025

On Sophie Kemp’s biblical saga of romantic disappointment.

The C.U.P. Runneth Over

Dave Infante

April 23, 2025

Busch Light’s C.U.P.s are full to the brim with reactionary politics.