It’s different for girls
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo reviewed
Paywall
Friday
Magus of mass production
Warhol by Blake Gopnik reviewed
Giving up Twitter for Lent went well
If I’m honest with myself, Twitter is the most hardcore addiction I have and it’s also the one that robs me of the most productivity
Wednesday
Right on: Boris Johnson’s Britain and the new political reality
Neoliberalism was a ruling-class project that was never popular with working-class citizens
Foreign policy is in a straitjacket
The Ivy League graduates who constitute America’s foreign policy elite think just like Robespierre
Friday
Cosmopolis
Migrant City: A New History of London by Panikos Panayi reviewed
Lure of the jungle
The monkeys have become experts not only at stealing fruit from rooms but also at plundering minibars
A tale of three dogs
Like a star of the country & western stage, I write because my wife left me and took my dog
Tuesday
No one in Jefferson’s day suspected the contradiction between commerce and education
Republics have never lived by the commercial principle alone
Saturday
Constrained by freedom: what do post-liberals want?
Liberalism may be a doctrine to organize your society by; it is not a doctrine to live your life by
Tuesday
After liberalism
Are we entering a new era of political thought?
Celia Walden: the birth of ‘corona kissing’ in LA
For germaphobe Angelenos the coronavirus is scarier than a waiter coming at you with a breadbasket
Monday
Save French food!
A cuisine in crisis
Sunday
Conscious coupling
Sex therapy with Anna Karenina
Tenor badness
Benny Golson, last legend of bebop
Saturday
The carnivore confessions: I’ve never felt better than on my meat-only diet
Online carno-forums are growing like mushrooms (which I no longer eat)
Epicenes and epicures
While his fellow Germans were rounding up résistants, Jünger was visiting Braque and Picasso
America is socialist, dummy
Let us count the ways…
Tuesday
The refreshing darkness of Netflix’s Locke & Key
The world before woke
Apocalypse soon
The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success by Ross Douthat reviewed