Going to the movies with my dad

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

This isn’t Dubai; it’s Tuscaloosa.

Alert the incels! The rest of us love her, and we will always love her.

On Mahmoud Khalil and the right to free expression

What happens when men prefer porn?

Nothing is more Christian than protecting vulnerable immigrants. Why couldn’t Bishop Mariann Budde just say that?

And that’s her right.

Don’t look to Nicole Kidman for a frank accounting of what sexual domination looks like.

What Seamus Heaney gave me

In a populist moment, the Democratic Party had the extremely rich and the very famous, some great music, and Mark Ruffalo. And they got shellacked.<strong> </strong>

RFK Jr. slid into my TikTok “For You” page this weekend. I had never thought of him as being For Me, but TikTok knows all of us better than we know ourselves, so I kept watching. He was standing outside on a sunny day, wearing a pale-blue T-shirt,…

If you want to reach the kids, you’ve got to go where the kids are. Where are they right now? With their devices, of course. And what are they doing on those devices? Listening to podcasts, of course. This, presumably, was the reason behind the…

If you’ve taken a college tour lately, either as an applicant or as the parent of an applicant, you may have noticed that at some point—usually as you’re on the death march from the aquatic center to the natural-sciences complex—the tour guide will…

Very early in my first marriage—I’m talking four or five days—I lay on a lounge chair on the white, powdery sand of an island paradise and took stock of my problems. First off, in that short time I’d already managed to lose both a piece of precious…

At long last, the rigid and outdated dress code in Congress has been sent down the river of bad ideas, along with the Segway and natural childbirth. Americans have been going through a sea change regarding work, with many of us experiencing not less…

Teach boys that strength can be a virtue. Listen to this article 00:00 16:46 Listen to more stories on curio The phrase toxic masculinity was coined in the 1980s by a psychologist named Shepherd Bliss. He was a central figure in what he named the…

A boy has died in a poultry processing plant, and a hashtag is no response. I was a child soldier in the California grape strikes, my labors conducted outside the Shattuck Avenue co-op in Berkeley. There I was, maybe 7 or 8 years old, shaking a…

The Meghan Markle and Prince Harry content farm is facing contradictory supply and demand challenges. On the one hand, Netflix is reportedly threatening that the couple had better come up with some more shows, or $51 million comes off the table. On…

No wonder the couple left England At the end of the first episode of Harry & Meghan—the five-and-a-half-hour exploration into the tender center of everlasting love; rat-bastard English people and the nasty things they get up to; heady, “Goodbye to…