Katherine Dee

Author Archive

  • Nov 19, 2025
    When Politico published racist and antisemitic messages from a Young Republican group chat in October, the surprise was as much who was talking as what they said. These...
  • Nov 18, 2025
    “Let’s not be politically correct. Let’s just admit you’re supposed to be having kids when you’re 16, 17, 18, and be done by the time you’re in...
  • Oct 15, 2025
    There was the time she wrote that 9/11 kicked off the Republican campaign to suppress voters. That Donald Trump, in 2016, won the White House partially by “asserting that white...
  • Jul 17, 2025
    I’m sitting in a meditation class at a yoga studio in Chicago, neon lights pulsing pink and purple while the instructor talks over a movie soundtrack. I almost can’t...
  • Apr 9, 2025
    During a particularly trying period of my pregnancy, I found myself relying on Claude, Anthropic’s AI chatbot, for emotional support. Intrigued by this technology that was...
  • Apr 7, 2025
    My mom likes to say it was the laptop. Sometimes it’s “that laptop” and other times it’s simply “the screen,” but in every retelling of the...
  • Mar 17, 2025
    During the summer of 2019, an English teenager named Mary-Belle Kirschner—better known as Belle Delphine—burst into the mainstream by selling small jars of...
  • Mar 14, 2025
    On Valentine’s Day, a conservative influencer named Ashley St. Clair announced, via a carefully choreographed (and publicist-approved) tweet, that she had a child with...
  • Jan 7, 2025
    At the height of “wokeness” (or “social justice” if you like), writers like Helen Lewis and John McWhorter speculated that it might be “our...