American Mirage
We’re happily living in Europe at the moment. She thinks we could live even more happily in America. Did I mention I hate America?
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The Right to Radiance
February 13, 2018
A truly progressive man would be one who rejects the social and economic advantages that come from masculinity, with a “feminine flourish.”
The Listening Con
February 13, 2018
How the powerful learned to launder their reputations using focus groups.
Cut the Music
February 12, 2018
The NYPD’s secret M.A.R.C.H. operation has been closing the city’s venues for years—should it be abolished?
Fresh Hell
February 09, 2018
We love picking, make no mistake about it.
For the “oddly satisfying” video enthusiast in your life, Billy and Summer Pierce present the Next Big Thing: Pop it Pal™, “the novelty pimple popping toy you just can’t get enough of.” For $19.99, you’ll get a slab ...
The Budget and the Political Imagination Deficit
February 09, 2018
Today's budget deal sucks for many of our fellow citizens, but it’s still Trump’s world, and we have to live in it.
Russia’s Zombie Election
February 08, 2018
We shouldn’t even be framing this as an election; it’s more like a protracted episode of Tales from the Crypt.
A Serious Man
February 07, 2018
If Jordan Peterson really is the “most influential public intellectual in the Western world right now,” as David Brooks writes, we have reason to worry.
The Thou of Zadie Smith
February 06, 2018
In Feel Free, Zadie Smith's first nonfiction collection, the author courts the paradox of infinite subjects.
Surveillance Valley
February 06, 2018
If the Internet is truly such a revolutionary break from the past, why are companies like Google in bed with cops and spies?
Faster, Higher, Stronger, More Harmonious
February 05, 2018
If sports are capable of “building a peaceful and better world,” they are just as likely to make people act like idiots.
The Reboot of the Elites
Ardent neoliberals tend to come into their own political convictions much as Joseph Kennedy III has: as a matter of class inheritance.