Title IX reminds us that the cultural left will lose
Don’t bet on Lia Thomas in the arc of history long game
Culture
The good, the bad and the ugly in books, exhibitions, cinema, TV, dance, music, podcasts and theatre.
Friday
Wednesday
Salvador Ramos and our crisis of masculinity
What mass shooters need are proper male role models
Sunday
We need more Juneteenths
Anything that gets the federal government to stop ‘working’
Friday
Oberlin College pays the price for wokeness
The school smeared a bakery for racism. Then came the defamation suit
Thursday
The Satanic Temple comes to Boston
Devil worshippers for free speech? Not quite
Wednesday
Nancy Pelosi: drag is ‘what America is all about’
Nancy actually wasn’t the most artificially made-up person in the room
Tuesday
Another moral panic over on-screen violence?
Movies and video games didn’t cause Uvalde but the questions don’t end there
Monday
The unremarkable Meghan Markle
She is terminal bread and circuses, SoCal lights and vapid glamor
Friday
Parenting writer: take your kid to a Pride parade!
‘Like there were these Beanie Babies with giant penises on them…’
Thursday
A toxic couple on trial
There were no winners in the Johnny Depp/Amber Heard verdict
Monday
AAPI, an incoherent identity
It is blatantly irrational, absurdly reductionist and obviously patronizing
A flag under foot
This Memorial Day let’s remember what that flag stood for — and what it could stand for again
Thursday
California dreaming
If fame determines status in Los Angeles, power is the social currency in Washington
Puppy privilege
Was not even my dog immune from the self-righteous?
We are failing to curate the present
If we exist everywhere online, do we exist anywhere at all?
America’s ‘techwokery’ is infecting its allies
The US’s most insidious export is damaging its interests
Wednesday
Fleeing dysfunctional America
Blue states cannot stop migrants from escaping their corruption and crime
Friday
Netflix changes woke course after Chappelle attack
They went woke and now they’re going broke
Thursday
When ‘words are violence’ turns to actual violence
The trans community makes a preemptive attack against Dave Chappelle
Wednesday
NASCAR is where free speech crashes and burns
The sport keeps punishing drivers for harmless words and stereotypes
