The Movies Got Small, and So Did WeGoing to the movies with my dad Nov 30 25November 30, 2025Article at The Atlantic
Don’t Bet Against Bari WeissThe new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics. Oct 07 25October 07, 2025Article at The Atlantic
Sorority MadnessThis isn’t Dubai; it’s Tuscaloosa. Sep 21 25September 21, 2025Article at The Atlantic
Why We’re Still Falling in Love With Pamela AndersonAlert the incels! The rest of us love her, and we will always love her. Jul 13 25July 13, 2025Article at The Atlantic
Americans Don’t Do ThisOn Mahmoud Khalil and the right to free expression Apr 29 25April 29, 2025Article at The Atlantic
A Christ-Lite SermonNothing is more Christian than protecting vulnerable immigrants. Why couldn’t Bishop Mariann Budde just say that? Jan 24 25January 24, 2025Article at The Atlantic
Michelle Doesn’t Want to Go to Barack’s Work ThingAnd that’s her right. Jan 20 25January 20, 2025Article at The Atlantic
Is Anyone Shocked By Babygirl?Don’t look to Nicole Kidman for a frank accounting of what sexual domination looks like. Jan 10 25January 10, 2025Article at The Atlantic
Walk on Air Against Your Better JudgmentWhat Seamus Heaney gave me Dec 09 24December 09, 2024Article at The Atlantic
The Democrats’ Billionaire MistakeIn 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> Nov 25 24November 25, 2024Article at The Atlantic
The Video That Perfectly Captures the Utter Strangeness of RFK Jr.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,… Sep 10 24September 10, 2024Article at The Atlantic
The Greatest Speeches of All Time, and What Biden SaidIf 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… Jun 24 24June 24, 2024Article at The Atlantic
Colleges Are Lying to Their StudentsIf 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… Feb 02 24February 02, 2024Article at The Atlantic
The Timeshare Comes for Us AllVery 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… Nov 11 23November 11, 2023Article at The Atlantic
Get That Senator a CinnabonAt 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… Sep 22 23September 22, 2023Article at The Atlantic
In Praise of Heroic MasculinityTeach 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… Aug 30 23August 30, 2023Article at The Atlantic
America’s Corporate TragedyA 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… Jul 21 23July 21, 2023Article at The Atlantic
The Harry and Meghan Podcasts We’ll Never Get to HearThe 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… Jun 27 23June 27, 2023Article at The Atlantic
Harry, Meghan, and the Men Who Hate ThemNo 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… Dec 30 22December 30, 2022Article at The Atlantic
