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Nov 14, 2025
Hello and welcome to Many Such Cases.
Shame does not feel good. It’s understandable we’d want to avoid it. We have entire social systems and norms in place to do so. Even...
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Oct 30, 2025
When Donna Haraway wrote A Cyborg Manifesto in 1985, I imagine there was excitement to the concept. To be a cyborg was to be liberated from the boundaries that separate...
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Oct 16, 2025
A year ago, I asked a question that felt both obvious and unspoken at the time: do men and women even like each other anymore? It wasn’t the answer itself that was...
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Sep 19, 2025
Candace Bushnell doesn’t think it’s all worth it for women anymore. We’re only attracted to ten percent of men, she told me one strikingly dewy April evening, and...
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Sep 15, 2025
Hello and welcome to Many Such Cases.
Even prior to yesterday afternoon, I felt as though all I saw when I opened my phone was horror, division, anxiety, and hatred. And then,...
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Aug 28, 2025
Hello and welcome to Many Such Cases.
A good deal of you likely know me as somewhat of an anti-phone writer. This is something I’ve always rolled with, because, well,...
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Jul 25, 2025
Hello and welcome to Many Such Cases.
It was only a matter of time before the voyeuristic swirl of social media and the flattening of the romantic market via dating apps combined in...
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Jul 17, 2025
There’s a pressure in talking about sex to make it about something else. I do it myself in my own work — when I write about sex, I often highlight that my broader...
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Jul 2, 2025
I’m not sure that most people look at dating as a math problem, at least not consciously. They’re not swiping through the apps assigning a composite score to each...
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May 22, 2025
Over the weekend, I saw the movie Friendship in theaters. I’m a big fan of Tim Robinson, not not a fan of Paul Rudd, and moreover would love to see more...
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May 21, 2025
For many people, dating is hell. If you could put a price tag on not having to deal with it anymore — namely, by finding a long-term partner with far less agony —...
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May 2, 2025
Some of you may have heard that I have recently started a new dream gig: for the next six months, I’m working with Playboy as Senior Editor. We’re working...
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Apr 9, 2025
This weekend, HBO aired the finale third season of White Lotus. From what I’ve read, it’s one that that left many disappointed. What happened to skewering the...
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Mar 20, 2025
Most of our love lives will, at some point within them, be the locus of a good deal of disappointment. There are few other aspects of ourselves that deal so specifically with...
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Mar 5, 2025
On Sunday, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo formally announced his long-anticipated bid to become the next mayor of the Big Apple. Speaking at a carpenters’-union event, the...
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Feb 20, 2025
Biology has afforded men certain existential comforts. We are obsessed with women’s reproductive clocks, the idea that if they get married and have children when they’re...
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Feb 14, 2025
I learned in the booklet in my recent Tokyo Treat box that Valentine’s Day in Japan is traditionally celebrated almost exclusively by women gifting chocolate to men. Most all...
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Jan 8, 2025
Hello and welcome to Many Such Cases.
I hope you all had a lovely holiday season. I enjoyed a nice little break from working and writing, but make no mistake — I thought of you...
Nov 14, 2025Hello and welcome to Many Such Cases. Shame does not feel good. It’s understandable we’d want to avoid it. We have entire social systems and norms in place to do so. Even...
Oct 30, 2025When Donna Haraway wrote A Cyborg Manifesto in 1985, I imagine there was excitement to the concept. To be a cyborg was to be liberated from the boundaries that separate...
Oct 16, 2025A year ago, I asked a question that felt both obvious and unspoken at the time: do men and women even like each other anymore? It wasn’t the answer itself that was...
Sep 15, 2025Hello and welcome to Many Such Cases. Even prior to yesterday afternoon, I felt as though all I saw when I opened my phone was horror, division, anxiety, and hatred. And then,...
Aug 28, 2025Hello and welcome to Many Such Cases. A good deal of you likely know me as somewhat of an anti-phone writer. This is something I’ve always rolled with, because, well,...
Jul 17, 2025There’s a pressure in talking about sex to make it about something else. I do it myself in my own work — when I write about sex, I often highlight that my broader...
Jul 2, 2025I’m not sure that most people look at dating as a math problem, at least not consciously. They’re not swiping through the apps assigning a composite score to each...
May 22, 2025Over the weekend, I saw the movie Friendship in theaters. I’m a big fan of Tim Robinson, not not a fan of Paul Rudd, and moreover would love to see more...
May 21, 2025For many people, dating is hell. If you could put a price tag on not having to deal with it anymore — namely, by finding a long-term partner with far less agony —...
May 2, 2025Some of you may have heard that I have recently started a new dream gig: for the next six months, I’m working with Playboy as Senior Editor. We’re working...
Apr 9, 2025This weekend, HBO aired the finale third season of White Lotus. From what I’ve read, it’s one that that left many disappointed. What happened to skewering the...
Mar 20, 2025Most of our love lives will, at some point within them, be the locus of a good deal of disappointment. There are few other aspects of ourselves that deal so specifically with...
Mar 5, 2025On Sunday, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo formally announced his long-anticipated bid to become the next mayor of the Big Apple. Speaking at a carpenters’-union event, the...
Feb 20, 2025Biology has afforded men certain existential comforts. We are obsessed with women’s reproductive clocks, the idea that if they get married and have children when they’re...
Jan 8, 2025Hello and welcome to Many Such Cases. I hope you all had a lovely holiday season. I enjoyed a nice little break from working and writing, but make no mistake — I thought of you...