Tragic Kingdom
HBO’s The Deuce traces exploitation in the porn industry back to 1970s Times Square—before its total Disneyfication.
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Mark Lilla’s Comfort Zone
September 14, 2017
How liberal discourse flattens out the work of critical race analysis.
New Iconoclasms
The modern history of art is a history of its removal and destruction.
Tears of a Crazy Clown
September 12, 2017
Is “Twin Peaks: The Return” a masterpiece of thwarted nostalgia or a sentimental joyride?
You Are Not a Rebel
The new far right has recognized the enduring appeal of adventurism and appropriated its rhetoric for reactionary ends.
Verrit Choly and the Infinite Sadness
September 11, 2017
Peter Daou and fellow #StillWithHer Hillary supporters suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome, and they are far from alone.
DACApocalypse Now
September 08, 2017
DACA was no DREAM. It was, at best, one of those restless afternoon naps one sometimes takes on a bad day hoping to wake up to something better.
A Farewell to the Impossible Kyrie Irving
Let it first be said that The Shot was always going to go in. The shot that unfurled from Kyrie Irving’s fingertips through the air inside Oracle Arena at the tail end of the 2016 NBA Finals was destined to find a home at the bottom of the net. The Cleveland Cavaliers had come ...
The Gray Place
So, you've died with all of humanity in a vast nuclear apocalypse. It was not the madness of your leaders that brought you here.
A Coalition Government of the Heart
They say never wake a sleepwalker, but your liberal girlfriend is wide awake!
Imagine Dragons
September 05, 2017
Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire, I say, shut up, the lot of you.
The Complacent Intellectual Class
September 04, 2017
Judging by Tyler Cowen’s latest book, our nation continues to vegetate in the pretend-thinking of #AspenIdeas pseudo-academia.