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Vanity Foul
May 22, 2018
One hundred years after the puff piece floated into our consciousness, it is being swept aside by a new kind of celebrity profile.

Dendrophile Diplomacy
May 18, 2018
Like someone with a cat allergy as incurable as their love of cats, the Queen brings my dad out in a rash. So overwhelmed with joy is he when he sees his monarch that he promptly bursts into tears. Official birthdays, Queen’s speeches, London Fashion Week—he’s hysterical. ...

Antifascism and the Left’s Fear of Power
May 16, 2018
This article has been adapted from a talk delivered at Purdue University on April 18, 2018, hosted by the Purdue chapter of the Campus Antifascist Network. In the United States today people tend to squirm with profound discomfort, if not sneer with outright revulsion, when they ...

What So Proudly We Hailed
May 11, 2018
At the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center last week I stood in one place for an hour watching a line of thousands inch along, quietly, cheerfully. They had come to see the president, the vice president, to see guns and lovers of guns, to see each other. I had come—just ...

Dealbreaker
May 10, 2018
A short history of double-dealing, and doubling down, between the United States and Iran.