Why DC loves to hate Partiful
The app has done more for the city’s social life than a decade of think-tank happy hours
Silicon valley
Tuesday
Wednesday
The cruel, cold intellect of DC and San Francisco
Each city serves Power while sacrificing meaning
Tuesday
Why tech leaders are obsessing over Heaven and Hell
Mavens argue that Silicon Valley’s engineers should see their work as part of a greater divine plan
Friday
A global MAGA crusade against web regulation?
We are often – wrongly – told that MAGA is simply a politics of expediency and national self-interest
Monday
The tech right-MAGA alliance is far from over
The tech right wants to build for America. That’s good
Friday
The strange futility of the Musk-Trump feud
The spat is a sign of the growing pains involved in reassembling this old coalition
Wednesday
How trans ideology paved the way for motherless babies
People have been led to believe is that gender ideology is simply a culture-bound syndrome like anorexia, or a medical scandal like the opioid crisis
Wednesday
How Mark Zuckerberg became based… by Brazilian jiu-jitsu
Is he really living his life a quarter mile at a time now — or is the Paul Walker tee all for show?
Thursday
The battle of the oligarchs
The billionaires have chosen their sides. What does that mean for the rest of us?
Wednesday
The winners and losers of the 2024 election
The sheer number of outside individuals, movements and institutions involved in the GOP’s sweeping night is astounding
Monday
No matter who wins, you lose
What do you think one man and a few ‘based’ people can do against hundreds of rotting bureaucracies?
Tuesday
Steve Hilton wants to challenge Gavin Newsom for the chance to run California
The former Fox host has been very vocal on the state’s public policy
Saturday
How Silicon Valley fell for Trump
Tech culture and Trumpian politics are evidently having a symbiotic moment
Elon is offering us a raw deal with X
He and his team have taken to poetry to convince us that a little censorship really isn’t so bad
Thursday
Elon Musk boards the Trump train out of California
He cited the state’s new gender identification law as the final straw
Thursday
Apple downplays the value of human achievement
The tech company’s new ad is being rightly criticized
Wednesday
TikTok bill makes strange bedfellows
It’s not often that Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy and Marjorie Taylor Greene find themselves allying with the Squad
Thursday
The digital habit
The vast majority of people neither living in what they call ‘real time’ nor experiencing life and the world itself at first hand
Wednesday
A history of intellect
The Greeks had a concept of the ‘intellect’ that is the diametric opposite of our own
Saturday
The new corporatism that’s killing capitalism
Big business is getting bigger. That’s bad news for all of us
