This month in culture: June 2024
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Culture
Wednesday
Friday
The problem with westerners seeking enlightenment in Asia
Christopher Harding is more tolerant than I am and has a greater affinity with the seekers. But he has written a very interesting book as a result
Wednesday
New York is a people pleaser’s hell
The city is a psychological assault course, an emotional minefield, for people like me who are chronically apologetic
A history of intellect
The Greeks had a concept of the ‘intellect’ that is the diametric opposite of our own
Tuesday
Milan Kundera’s ‘transcendental buffoonery’
A look at the late Czech novelist’s legacy and philosophy
The sad demise of American car culture
Homogenized modern vehicles have made driving mundane
Monday
What conservatives lack
What the cultured right needs is what the left has: an avant-garde
Monday
Walking Hanoi
I’m in Hanoi for a month as part of my Walking the World project
Thursday
Is Miami really on the rise?
Some hope the boom continues but others are less pleased
The decline and fall of eating out
Our priority is therapeutic: to be comfortable and feel welcome
Members’ clubs are having a moment
Might the uptick in club openings tell us something profound?
Saturday
Mowing the lawn is underrated
It’s technically a chore, but more leisure activity than work
Monday
The dangerous rise of academic diversity quotas
‘White men need not apply’ is corrupting science
Monday
Ain’t that good news
Rather than preparing to live out the rest of this century in misery, I’m now giddily optimistic
Sunday
America’s rural population is shrinking
The trend that spells doom for the country
Sunday
The death of literature
Literature in the West is dead for the simple reason that the West itself is virtually dead
When migrants come, their culture does too
Politicians and the media have done their best to downplay the post-2015 wave of harassment and assaults
Friday
Why we need bullfighting
The art of the corrida teaches respect for mortality
Monday
From Cool to Cringe: what’s happened to American culture?
What’s happened to American culture?
Monday
Diversity means culture, not race
America must teach immigrants how to be Americans
