2019 was the year of the ill-advised celebrity interview
A-list abusers think they’re living in their own movie
Society
Wednesday
Tuesday
White Christmas: the magic of the festive drugs binge
Among partying druggies, the trust that has disappeared from every level of society is fully present
Thursday
Greta Thunberg is Donald Trump’s mirror image
Every criticism, in her admirers’ eyes, confirms her righteousness and her opponents’ malignancy
Tuesday
The Washington Post gets the British elections wrong
Nobody in Britain is politically literate
Monday
Dave Rubin is here to solve ‘95 percent’ of the internet’s problems
‘I’m not trying to create an exclusive safe space for my content because I’m afraid of what the world thinks’
How to disappear completely
The technological lowdown on keeping a digital low profile in a world without privacy
Sunday
Let Utah be Utah
I dig the Mormons and even pull for Brigham Young University’s football team
Monday
Hungary isn’t afraid to call ‘Christian persecution’ what it is
Their approach is unprecedented in its humility
Saturday
Doorbell cameras offer a window to the wild
The rise of devices like Ring and Nest has brought a love of candid-camera critters into the mainstream
Newsweek and the misunderstanding of ‘white death’
Condescending claims, uncritically reported
Friday
Michael Wolff is working on ‘nothing’
A surprising number of my contemporaries have children who are stand-up comics
Wednesday
There’s no need to mourn the loss of Uber’s London license
Call me old-fashioned, but I still prefer the pottering black cab
NASA’s multi-billion dollar Mars reality TV show green-lit for another season
A new lovable robot joins the cast in 2020
Digital media invented the Thanksgiving argument
It’s an apt strategy for pulling in some general-interest clicks
Monday
How tech is trying to solve America’s trash pile-up
Some scientists believe that existing microbes in the ocean may already be eating plastic both on the surface and on the ocean floor
Saturday
E-scooters are a wretched species to be introduced into the urban ecosystem
DC is the Wild West of e-scooterdom: there are just too many operating here
Tuesday
Fashion victims: how feminists are betraying Muslim women
In the West, hierarchies of collective privilege and victimhood are more important than individual rights
What will war with China look like?
China feels increasingly confident in the face of what it perceives as America’s declining power
Monday
The ‘Russians’ of Brighton Beach
The attitude of Jewish ‘Russians’ in America toward Russia is goodbye and good luck. But mostly goodbye
Sunday
Prince Andrew’s BBC interview was utterly brilliant
The royal gave the plebs what they want: entertainment
