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Oct 24, 2025
We are often told that there is a crisis of boys and men in this country. They’re depressed, aimless, susceptible to malign persuasion. They’re underperforming at school,...
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Sep 30, 2025
The same week ABC temporarily shut down Jimmy Kimmel Live!, JD Vance stepped in to host The Charlie Kirk Show, livestreamed from the White House. And with that, the ongoing crisis of...
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Aug 19, 2025
FX’s Alien: Earth shreds. In making the first-ever television show based on the Alien film franchise, creator Noah Hawley seems to have had one insight that overwhelmed all the...
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Jul 25, 2025
What even was Girls? One of the features that notoriously distinguishes online writing about art and culture is its speed. In comparison to the kinds of slow, roiling debates among...
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Jul 7, 2025
It’s hard to know what’s scarier: the past or the future. In this fourth season of The Bear, we’ve seen characters go back and forth on this question. Some are...
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Jun 25, 2025
Paige Bueckers, the superstar guard who, in early April, led the storied ­UConn Huskies women’s basketball team to their twelfth national championship, had a made-for-TV...
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May 27, 2025
My best friend’s little brother is a commercial airline pilot, and I am obsessed with this fact. I am a very nervous flyer, I have no desire ever to fly an airplane myself,...
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Mar 31, 2025
How do you tell the difference between a talk show that reinvents the form so radically that it confounds the viewer’s expectations about what a talk show is and a talk show...
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Mar 5, 2025
Who cares about The White Lotus? For at least eight years now, since the debut of Big Little Lies in 2017, HBO has been pumping out nominal satires of the ultra-wealthy. From the...
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Jan 29, 2025
I did not watch ER in the 1990s because it was too gross. Or, at least, I assumed it would be. I’m a pretty squeamish person so, despite the fact that the show had become a...
Oct 24, 2025We are often told that there is a crisis of boys and men in this country. They’re depressed, aimless, susceptible to malign persuasion. They’re underperforming at school,...
Sep 30, 2025The same week ABC temporarily shut down Jimmy Kimmel Live!, JD Vance stepped in to host The Charlie Kirk Show, livestreamed from the White House. And with that, the ongoing crisis of...
Aug 19, 2025FX’s Alien: Earth shreds. In making the first-ever television show based on the Alien film franchise, creator Noah Hawley seems to have had one insight that overwhelmed all the...
Jul 25, 2025What even was Girls? One of the features that notoriously distinguishes online writing about art and culture is its speed. In comparison to the kinds of slow, roiling debates among...
Jul 7, 2025It’s hard to know what’s scarier: the past or the future. In this fourth season of The Bear, we’ve seen characters go back and forth on this question. Some are...
Jun 25, 2025Paige Bueckers, the superstar guard who, in early April, led the storied ­UConn Huskies women’s basketball team to their twelfth national championship, had a made-for-TV...
May 27, 2025My best friend’s little brother is a commercial airline pilot, and I am obsessed with this fact. I am a very nervous flyer, I have no desire ever to fly an airplane myself,...
Mar 31, 2025How do you tell the difference between a talk show that reinvents the form so radically that it confounds the viewer’s expectations about what a talk show is and a talk show...
Mar 5, 2025Who cares about The White Lotus? For at least eight years now, since the debut of Big Little Lies in 2017, HBO has been pumping out nominal satires of the ultra-wealthy. From the...
Jan 29, 2025I did not watch ER in the 1990s because it was too gross. Or, at least, I assumed it would be. I’m a pretty squeamish person so, despite the fact that the show had become a...