Here come the Nineties
The Nineties were the first decade of the 21st century
Features
Monday
Why trigger warnings don’t work
They only reached popular consciousness in the 2010s, when feminist blogs used them ahead of content about sexual violence
Goodbye, Lebanon
Farewell to a failed state
Whipping up a crisis
The wall between journalism and activism is badly corroded
Evergrande illusions
Expect more Evergrandes from China’s command economy
Social media is nothing like heroin
My addiction turned out to be an entirely correctable habit
How we can keep innovating
The prophets of stagnation are wrong
Scotland by sleeper
Wanting to avoid the airport, I took a late-evening, six-and-a-half-hour train from Edinburgh to Bristol
The problem with Ovid
Ovid clearly was not an enlightened modern
Thursday
Worse than porn
I am a ‘media personality’ who occasionally opens my pie-hole on conservative media outlets. I’ve even appeared on Fox
History returns for Putin and Erdogan
The era of good feelings between Russia and Turkey seems to be over
The United States of Fear
The reasons why international travel is off-limits and shameful have nothing to do with medical facts
Wednesday
Joe Biden’s Swamp
The Biden family is in deep
The great unraveling
The Biden administration is an unmitigated disaster unfolding in real time
If the Croc fits
The most unflattering shoe to come to market in generations is now ubiquitous among disaffected youth
Jeopardy! is in trouble
Have enough cleft-toed demisexual non-binary POCs been contestants on Jeopardy!?
Crypto casino
The entrepreneurial spirit of Generation Z has become notorious
Tuesday
The myth of the good Afghan war
Nothing we did in Afghanistan really worked
Monday
Hunter Biden, artist of modern life
Without vision, training or talent, Hunter Biden deigns to glue his crippling jewels onto the back of our society
Life in LA is murder
There is no law in California