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Oct 27, 2025
When British historian Andrew Roberts told the British House of Lords last month that opponents of assisted suicide were “antediluvian monsters” defending...
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Oct 23, 2025
This month’s crypto liquidation event, the largest in history, was like turning on the lights in a roach-infested apartment. A flash $17,000 drawdown in the price of Bitcoin...
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Oct 20, 2025
Narcissism as a political force has been an essential, if covert, problem in the United States since the 1960s. Christopher Lasch famously theorized narcissism as a collective...
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Sep 15, 2025
You’re at your desk at 11:45 a.m., and you open the Sweetgreen or Cava app and begin to build your bowl: quinoa base, blackened chicken, a choice of vegetables that represent...
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Sep 9, 2025
Harold, the protagonist of Jordan Castro’s new novel Muscle Man, is a Gulliver who doesn’t travel. Or a Gulliver whose travels only take him back and forth across the...
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Aug 21, 2025
The statistics are many and grim and fairly well known at this point: American boys and men are falling behind across a range of educational and economic indicators when compared to...
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Aug 18, 2025
In his seminal version and vision of the evolution of human psychology, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976), Julian Jaynes argues...
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Jul 21, 2025
I wish I didn’t know who Andy Byron and Kristin Cabot are. As you no doubt know by now, the Astronomer CEO and his firm’s HR chief were caught on the jumbotron at a...
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Jul 3, 2025
In 307 B.C., a young Macedonian in the mold of Alexander named Demetrius appeared with a large fleet in the sea before Athens. And this charismatic and beautiful young man made a...
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Jun 26, 2025
Israel’s attack on Iran has been, and continues to be, negotiated largely in public — on X and Truth Social. This is not fully explicable in terms of President...
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Jun 9, 2025
In 2003, philosopher Nick Bostrom presented what he carefully termed the “simulation argument” (SA) — a probabilistic thought experiment that posits that, if there...
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Jun 5, 2025
James Walsh’s viral recent New York article, “Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College,” was not notable because it revealed the extent to which AI has...
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May 23, 2025
The American novel has long been in decline. Like most disasters, this one has many fathers; no single cause is fully explanatory. But all of them tell us something relevant. General...
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May 8, 2025
Akari was on the couch, scrolling Instagram.
Her body was small, but she was very toned and lean from yoga and pilates classes, so she appeared longer than she was. And though her...
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May 1, 2025
Arranged marriages long ago disappeared from the secular West. Yet marriage and dating are becoming functions of caste once more. This time, it’s dating apps that determine...
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Apr 14, 2025
A few weeks ago, after the first preview of my play about artificial intelligence in San Francisco, I found myself talking to Edward (not his real name), an agreeable programmer with...
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Mar 25, 2025
My first real directing gig, the first time I directed a play other than my own, was Bloody Poetry, a work from the 1980s by Howard Brenton, an English playwright. It’s...
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Mar 6, 2025
I'll start with a simple premise. If we now have direct evidence that the federal government was funneling millions of dollars into supposedly free market press organs (such as...
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Feb 24, 2025
Millennials are having their post-Soviet moment: the truths, the lifestyles, the ideologies, and the religions that girded us through adulthood: all vapor. Our mode of social...
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Feb 10, 2025
It's harder to communicate now that people don’t read. One way to look at books is as shorthand—summarizing vast swaths of human experience. Reading a great book is like...
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Jan 27, 2025
I wrote my play Doomers partly because, the night Sam Altman was fired, I was performing in a play called Zoomers.
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Jan 24, 2025
“Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real.”
— Jean Baudrillard
American films don’t feel like films....
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Jan 13, 2025
I moved to New York in 2011 and started hanging out in the Village, not realizing that it was, at that point, largely a fake neighborhood—NYU kids and the wealthy....
Oct 27, 2025When British historian Andrew Roberts told the British House of Lords last month that opponents of assisted suicide were “antediluvian monsters” defending...
Oct 23, 2025This month’s crypto liquidation event, the largest in history, was like turning on the lights in a roach-infested apartment. A flash $17,000 drawdown in the price of Bitcoin...
Oct 20, 2025Narcissism as a political force has been an essential, if covert, problem in the United States since the 1960s. Christopher Lasch famously theorized narcissism as a collective...
Sep 15, 2025You’re at your desk at 11:45 a.m., and you open the Sweetgreen or Cava app and begin to build your bowl: quinoa base, blackened chicken, a choice of vegetables that represent...
Sep 9, 2025Harold, the protagonist of Jordan Castro’s new novel Muscle Man, is a Gulliver who doesn’t travel. Or a Gulliver whose travels only take him back and forth across the...
Aug 21, 2025The statistics are many and grim and fairly well known at this point: American boys and men are falling behind across a range of educational and economic indicators when compared to...
Aug 18, 2025In his seminal version and vision of the evolution of human psychology, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976), Julian Jaynes argues...
Jul 21, 2025I wish I didn’t know who Andy Byron and Kristin Cabot are. As you no doubt know by now, the Astronomer CEO and his firm’s HR chief were caught on the jumbotron at a...
Jul 3, 2025In 307 B.C., a young Macedonian in the mold of Alexander named Demetrius appeared with a large fleet in the sea before Athens. And this charismatic and beautiful young man made a...
Jun 26, 2025Israel’s attack on Iran has been, and continues to be, negotiated largely in public — on X and Truth Social. This is not fully explicable in terms of President...
Jun 9, 2025In 2003, philosopher Nick Bostrom presented what he carefully termed the “simulation argument” (SA) — a probabilistic thought experiment that posits that, if there...
Jun 5, 2025James Walsh’s viral recent New York article, “Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College,” was not notable because it revealed the extent to which AI has...
May 8, 2025Akari was on the couch, scrolling Instagram. Her body was small, but she was very toned and lean from yoga and pilates classes, so she appeared longer than she was. And though her...
May 1, 2025Arranged marriages long ago disappeared from the secular West. Yet marriage and dating are becoming functions of caste once more. This time, it’s dating apps that determine...
Apr 14, 2025A few weeks ago, after the first preview of my play about artificial intelligence in San Francisco, I found myself talking to Edward (not his real name), an agreeable programmer with...
Mar 25, 2025My first real directing gig, the first time I directed a play other than my own, was Bloody Poetry, a work from the 1980s by Howard Brenton, an English playwright. It’s...
Mar 6, 2025I'll start with a simple premise. If we now have direct evidence that the federal government was funneling millions of dollars into supposedly free market press organs (such as...
Feb 24, 2025Millennials are having their post-Soviet moment: the truths, the lifestyles, the ideologies, and the religions that girded us through adulthood: all vapor. Our mode of social...
Feb 10, 2025It's harder to communicate now that people don’t read. One way to look at books is as shorthand—summarizing vast swaths of human experience. Reading a great book is like...
Jan 24, 2025“Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real.” — Jean Baudrillard American films don’t feel like films....
Jan 13, 2025I moved to New York in 2011 and started hanging out in the Village, not realizing that it was, at that point, largely a fake neighborhood—NYU kids and the wealthy....