On Enmity
January 11, 2018
Enmity, rendered gamelike through this remove into the virtual, is the same as it’s always been, only now maybe even worse.
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The Decline of The New Criterion
January 10, 2018
How do you go from witty reviews about Hegel and Kierkegaard to recommending a book by The Veritas Project’s James O’Keefe?
Our Refugees
January 09, 2018
What is the connection between the Trump travel bans and U.S. foreign policy?
Throne of Games
According to Michael Wolff, Trump’s inner circle exists in acute triage conditions, and is forever unable to anticipate the next squalid yawp from the presidential id.
Fresh Hell
January 05, 2018
From the folks who brought you Juicero.
After unsuccessfully trying to foist a $400 juice-pouch-squeezing machine on the masses, Silicon Valley luminary Doug Evans took some time to ponder the Next Big Thing. He found it in water—raw, unfiltered, untreated, unsterilized ...
The Afterlife of Newsies
January 05, 2018
It was, within the Newsies fandom, a truth universally acknowledged that we could do whatever the hell we wanted.
The Duality of the Southern Thing
January 03, 2018
The Roy Moore vs. Doug Jones race for Senate was the perfect embodiment of the two sides of Alabama.
The Story of a Face
January 03, 2018
We are trying to read the story of a teenage girl, but Marguerite Duras is trying to tell us something else.
Mariah Carey Has a Cold
Year after year, and perhaps forever, Mariah Carey is the national symbol for our New Year's resolutions.
Slim Returns
January 02, 2018
Given its emphasis on revenge, any real differences between Eminem’s music and a CNN-bashing Trump tweet are razor-thin.
Baffling, Baffling, Baffled
December 29, 2017
“It won’t hurt much longer,” promises Javier Bardem’s character in the 2017 movie Mother! With this utter trainwreck of a year careening to a close, we guess you could say the same of 2017, although who knows what we have to look forward to as the second year of the ...
You’re a Monster, Mr. Trump
December 22, 2017
The long national nightmare is a long way from over. 'Tis the season for epic corruption.