Progressive Posturing
June 06, 2019
Bill de Blasio’s failures on affordable housing are a parable and a warning.
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San Francisco, Please Stand Up
June 05, 2019
Everyone is obsessed with San Francisco right now. It has become a symbol, a cliché, a fable about money and technology. The moral is different depending on who you ask. A sampling of headlines from the last month in local and national news: “How San Francisco broke ...
American Sports and the Forever War
June 04, 2019
When the military is brought to the ball field season after season, the subtext is the eternal war, and its justification.
Fresh Hell
May 31, 2019
Coal: a “special luxury vegetable,” the “holy chicken nugget of the Earth.”
Unpopular Content
May 31, 2019
Default Filename TV wants to make YouTube weird again.
Cookshops of the Future
May 30, 2019
It's time for the left to start thinking in the future tense. But is Fully Automated Luxury Communism the answer?
Apply Directly to the Forehead
Like many preteens prescribed heavy-duty amphetamines, I had difficulty sleeping. This manifested in a variety of ways, but the most common was sneaking out of my room to watch my favorite late-night channel, The Weather Channel, until I passed out from exhaustion on my ...
Oh Spotify Up Yours!
May 28, 2019
Zach Webb and Liz Pelly speak to Blood Club's Liana Hell Lean about Spotify and music community outside of the internet.
Fresh Hell
May 24, 2019
Planning a summer vacation as “unique as [your] DNA."
Choosing Battles
In a March 29 article in The Cut, politician and former Our Revolution board member Lucy Flores alleges that during her Nevada Lieutenant Governor campaign, Joe Biden put his hands on the back of her shoulders, smelled her hair, and kissed the top of her head. Former Connecticut ...
Rotten Goes Rancid
May 23, 2019
John Lydon has mutated into a member of the self-satisfied whiny bourgeoise set he made a profitable career out of shocking.
In the Hands of Angry Gods
May 22, 2019
Secular though I may feel that I am, I can’t escape the heat of hell.