Why the media despises country music
They ignore the genre unless they can use country stars and fans as scapegoats for supposed societal ills
Cancel culture
Wednesday
Wednesday
The strange case of Brian Szasz, stepson of a Titanic submarine billionaire
Everyone is piling on this oddball for his bizarre posts
Monday
Can Armie Hammer stage a comeback?
The LA County DA’s office said he will not be charged with any crimes
Friday
Get in loser, we’re canceling Bluey
This animated dog has gone too far
Tuesday
Judy Blume steps on the J.K. Rowling landmine
It went badly, as might be imagined
Thursday
The death of the Western literary tradition
No one reads Waugh, Stendhal or Faulkner anymore, not to mention Hemingway
Tuesday
Drinking with Picasso
To mark the half-century since Picasso’s death, I invited two art experts to lunch at Els Quatre Gats
Monday
Should I have had a sensitivity reader review my book?
They’re a kind of last line of defense against the intolerant left
Monday
Reading Roald Dahl in a dystopian world
His works are being censored decades after he might have disapproved
Friday
The glorious rise of the superhero anti-vaxxer
What happens when big-name actors veer off-script? Sit back and enjoy the chaos
Tuesday
Armie Hammer and cancel culture’s diminishing power
‘Someone makes a mistake, and we throw them away like a broken disposable camera’
Monday
So we’re canceling AI for being transphobic now
Surely it was only a matter of time
Friday
Shouldn’t the Justin Roiland controversy be bigger?
The Rick and Morty co-creator stands accused of domestic violence, among other things
Tuesday
The other cancel culture
Like the cancel culture of the woke, the cancel culture of friendship is made possible by technology
Monday
The shock value of Lena Dunham
She was the low-culture Mary Tyler Moore
Monday
Apple Music cynically exploits Kanye West by deplatforming him
Getting them tons of free media impressions. How convenient
Don’t let paranoid progressives ruin Halloween
Thirty years ago, no one was quaking over inclusion or safety
Tuesday
The left thinks social media is reality
Their learned helplessness rejects real democracy in favor of Twitter whining
Bodies Bodies Bodies cancels its characters to death
It’s a successful satire of cancel culture that never hectors or patronizes
So much for #MeToo
The movement was meant to change sexual politics forever. What happened?