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The Decline of The New Criterion

John Ganz

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

Maytha Alhassen

January 09, 2018

What is the connection between the Trump travel bans and U.S. foreign policy?

Throne of Games

Chris Lehmann

January 08, 2018

The Blessed and the Brightest

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

The Baffler

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

Sarah Marshall

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

Rachel Bryan

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

J.W. McCormack

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

Niela Orr

January 02, 2018

Bread and Circuses

Year after year, and perhaps forever, Mariah Carey is the national symbol for our New Year's resolutions.

Slim Returns

Stephen Kearse

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

The Baffler

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

Chris Norris

December 22, 2017

The long national nightmare is a long way from over. 'Tis the season for epic corruption.

A Show Trial that No One Watched

Maximillian Alvarez

December 21, 2017

The Poverty of Theory

Today, a jury in the Washington, D.C. Superior Court rendered a verdict of not guilty on all counts for the first six defendants in the J20 trials.