William Deresiewicz tries for a new spin, but gets hung up on misleading tributes to “working-class” journalists from the 20th century.
Diverse forms of malevolence can work together.
Praise the Lord: Sippy slurps at the Fountain of Youth.
Adam Gopnik’s lengthy essay on Covid fallout, four years on, is an engaging read. || Russ Smith
Arguments aimed at dehumanizing unborn children rely mostly on mid-wit semantics.
Also, DeSantis and Haley could’ve saved their presidential aspirations by standing down this year.
It’s all over but the tickets.
No time for “ordinary” and “regular” Americans.
My wife becomes a citizen at time when people have two or three jobs to stave off inflation.
Martina Navratilova is an admirable outspoken celebrity, but the DNC remains as clueless as ever.
Alex Stein's latest stunt isn't amusing, it's just bizarre.
A Covid election won’t save the incumbent this year. He won’t be the Democratic nominee.
Less Ben Shapiro, more Exemplum.
Crime and sporadic punishment.
The 1960 election essay predicted Trump.
Too skeptical for politics, too freedom-loving for skepticism.
Remembering the violent attack that Israel suffered on October 7th.
The serial parliamentarian opened his victory speech with the words, “This is for Gaza.”
Reversing the valences is still racism.
This isn’t 1986.
The moment of maximum wokeness delivered a spectacle of pointless cruelty, which continues.
The late journalist talks to Harrison Salisbury about his particular style of writing.
The future Presidents are interviewed together for the first time by 60 Minutes.
The journalist talks about the Depression years in the United States.
On Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, and more from this discussion held in the summer of 2008.
Traditional media companies weren’t robbed by tech entrepreneurs. What year is it (#478)?
A short piece produced by the AP and aired on March 31, 1994.
A ham-handed New York Times article of “generational shifts.” What year is it (#471)?
The writer and scholar talks about the ongoing destruction in Gaza.
Debate from the Comedy Cellar's Live from the Table Podcast.