The sex lives of writers
The era of the Great Literary Sex God is over
Life
Thursday
Tuesday
The paradox of political power
When everyone has power, no one has power
Sunday
Ernest Hemingway’s Idaho playground
Ketchum today does not exploit the Hemingway connection
Monday
Underwater yoga: taking wellness to the extreme
Today’s jet-setting yoga lover is spoiled for choice
My new life of relative poverty
Bohemian London is full of men like me who now depend on the kindness of friends for life’s little luxuries
The unfortunate ubiquity of smartphones
We who refuse to spend our days caressing the wretched rectangle are fast being reduced to second-class citizenhood
Transhumanism is the most dangerous idea in circulation today
It’s a contemptible attempt at escaping the pain of being a man
Wednesday
Stuck in a love triangle with a shrink
During their sessions together The Other Man does that old Freudian trick of staying silent
Oneida: the nineteenth-century sex cult behind the flatware giant
From spooning to spoons
Democracy by numbers
It seems plausible that a small democracy is more intelligent and more wisely ruled than a modern mass one like America
Tuesday
The other cancel culture
Like the cancel culture of the woke, the cancel culture of friendship is made possible by technology
Voting with a vengeance
An act that I have perversely enjoyed for most of my life lost much of its luster a score of years ago
The left’s politics of catastrophe
Running our lives is the sort of project to which fallen humanity is unsuited
Monday
How to throw a book party
My book has not gotten sensational reviews. It’s gotten no reviews — at least from the national press
Detroit detour
We took a side trip to Sonny Bono’s hometown en route to a birthday party in Indiana
The grievance games of the left
Since the French Revolution, left-wing politics have been essentially about revenge
Saturday
An LA adventure
Our every visit is scored by songs and films and words disgorged by the world’s entertainment factory
Monday
With the vintage car enthusiasts at Lime Rock
A usually quiet town in Connecticut finds autos roaring around the racetrack
Tuesday
I was upstaged by Jordan Peterson
My Dinner with Jordan Peterson makes for a better dinner-party story than My Buddy’s Book Launch
The brilliance of British civilization
Ceremony comes naturally to the British; Americans are suspicious of it