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June 19, 2023
Magazine
Andre Pagliarini
The Plan to Split Democracies Into Tiny Pieces
From start-up countries to gated communities, privately ruled zones can sidestep taxes, regulation, and democratic rule itself.
June 16, 2023
Magazine
Maggie Doherty
Lorrie Moore Turns to Stranger Things
“I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home” blends the historical and the present, the real world and the spiritual.
June 15, 2023
Critical Mass
David Klion
The Convenient Omissions in
Arnold
The Netflix documentary about Arnold Schwarzenegger doesn’t know quite what to do with his disturbing rise in politics.
June 13, 2023
Alex Shephard
Cormac McCarthy, One of America’s Greatest Novelists, Has Died
He takes his place with Melville, Faulkner, and Twain in the pantheon.
June 13, 2023
Prem Thakker
Don’t Pour One Out for Pat Sajak,
Wheel of Fortune
’s Die-Hard Right-Wing Host
Pat Sajak has announced his retirement from the game show. Before you mourn his loss, remember what he stood for.
June 13, 2023
Critical Mass
Jack McCordick
The Pandemic’s Gun Surge Offers a Frightening Glimpse of the Future
A sociologist spoke with 50 gun sellers about 2020’s dramatic uptick in firearms sales and its effects.
June 12, 2023
Tori Otten
Broadway Actress Compares Ron DeSantis to KKK “Grand Wizard” at Tony Awards
Denée Benton called out the governor of her home state while presenting an award at the Tonys.
June 9, 2023
Magazine
Phillip Maciak
The Other Two
Captures the Strangeness of Social Media Stardom
No other show better understands the slippage between who we are in private and who we are in public.
June 8, 2023
Critical Mass
Hannah Rosefield
Going It Alone, With Help from Joni Mitchell
“Arrangements in Blue” and “A Life of One’s Own” work through the puzzles of single life through art and music.
June 5, 2023
Critical Mass
David Klion
Reality Winner’s Story Was Never About a Leak
Tina Satter’s film “Reality” on HBO captures the cruelty of the surveillance state.
June 2, 2023
Critical Mass
Jordan Michael Smith
How Russia Got the Ukraine War Wrong
Centuries of history fed into Putin’s disastrous decision to go to war.
June 1, 2023
Critical Mass
Jacob Bacharach
The True Mystery in James Comey’s Crime Novel
What do politicos turned authors know that we don’t?
May 26, 2023
Critical Mass
Phillip Maciak
The End of
Succession
Is the End of an Era in TV
Just not in the way you might think.
May 23, 2023
Tori Otten
A Florida School Has Banned the Poem Read at Biden’s Inauguration
Amanda Gorman’s “The Hill We Climb” is restricted after just one parent complained about it.
May 23, 2023
Critical Mass
Erin Somers
Martin Amis Let His Readers in on the Joke
Amis trusted you to keep pace with his wit, his bawdiness, his erudition. His work seems to say: You and me—we get it.
May 23, 2023
Critical Mass
Max Holleran
Midcentury Modern Furniture Owes Its Popularity to the Welfare State
Danish design was a product of postwar social democracy.
May 22, 2023
Critical Mass
David Klion
Succession
at Last Found Its Moral Center
The show’s final episodes reject the cynicism and exhaustion of our moment.
May 21, 2023
Magazine
Ed Burmila
How Trump Left Washington Even Swampier
The battle for power and influence in the nation’s capital is more shameless, desperate, and embarrassing than ever.
May 19, 2023
Prem Thakker
Elon Said Twitter Users Can Post Two-Hour Videos, So Someone Immediately Shared the Entire
Shrek 3
Movie
New CEO shift going well *thumbs up*
May 19, 2023
Critical Mass
Ben Schwartz
Master Gardener
Offers Redemption From American Extremism
Paul Schrader’s portrait of an ex–white supremacist gang member is an unlikely feat of optimism.
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