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The barbell on the ground in front of me is loaded with every weight plate I own (695 pounds in all). It’s a rare day for such a heavy feat — heavy for me anyway, and...
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I recently spoke with novelist Jordan Castro about his new book Muscle Man from Catapult/Penguin. Castro's 2022 debut The Novelist (which I haven’t read, so...
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For the extremely online political junkies who remember it, the “post-left” moment that blazed brightest during the pandemic was supposed to mark a departure from the...
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America needs a Civilian Fitness Corps: a government program that pays you to get fit, reversing the obesity epidemic that’s plagued us for the last 40 years.
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I pushed my chips to the center of the table on a rain‑soaked April morning in 2015, halfway through a “young tenure‑track faculty breakfast” thrown by the president...
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WWE has mastered a nifty magic trick. The company simultaneously announces record revenues while its flagship event, WrestleMania 41, struggles to sell tickets for the upcoming...
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Mar 28, 2025
For much of this week, X has been filled with eerily familiar yet undeniably off-putting images that represent a new frontier in AI’s consumption of human art. Users have...
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Jan 3, 2025
The big power forwards and centers, wide as canyons in the shoulders and waist, used to bludgeon each other in the post like elephant seals. That was basketball once — Charles...
Dec 2, 2025The barbell on the ground in front of me is loaded with every weight plate I own (695 pounds in all). It’s a rare day for such a heavy feat — heavy for me anyway, and...
Sep 3, 2025I recently spoke with novelist Jordan Castro about his new book Muscle Man from Catapult/Penguin. Castro's 2022 debut The Novelist (which I haven’t read, so...
Aug 7, 2025Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Something strange is brewing in the weird wellness corners of the internet. Grown adults are religiously consuming raw carrot salads,...
Aug 1, 2025The other day I read about some getting thousands of views for reading another person’s essay word for word. Not her ideas, not a similar take — the actual sentences and...
Jul 28, 2025Wrestling legend Terry Gene Bollea, known worldwide as Hulk Hogan, died after suffering cardiac arrest at his home in Clearwater, Florida, on Thursday at age 71. The man who...
Jul 24, 2025For the extremely online political junkies who remember it, the “post-left” moment that blazed brightest during the pandemic was supposed to mark a departure from the...
Jun 30, 2025In 2004, a German toddler shocked neurologists at Berlin’s Charité hospital. At four and a half years old, the boy could hold seven-pound dumbbells with his arms...
Jun 18, 2025America needs a Civilian Fitness Corps: a government program that pays you to get fit, reversing the obesity epidemic that’s plagued us for the last 40 years.
May 15, 2025I pushed my chips to the center of the table on a rain‑soaked April morning in 2015, halfway through a “young tenure‑track faculty breakfast” thrown by the president...
Apr 17, 2025WWE has mastered a nifty magic trick. The company simultaneously announces record revenues while its flagship event, WrestleMania 41, struggles to sell tickets for the upcoming...
Apr 15, 2025There is a fine bedtime story about manufacturing in America we cannot stop telling. It is a simple, plain story: making things is good, and we should make more things. Manufacturing...
Mar 28, 2025For much of this week, X has been filled with eerily familiar yet undeniably off-putting images that represent a new frontier in AI’s consumption of human art. Users have...
Jan 3, 2025The big power forwards and centers, wide as canyons in the shoulders and waist, used to bludgeon each other in the post like elephant seals. That was basketball once — Charles...