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Nov 6, 2025
It started with the memes. People in the online know were all reading the tweets of Bronze Age Pervert. Quoting from neo-Nietzschean joke-manifesto Bronze Age Mindset was a...
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Sep 29, 2025
More than once, my life has fallen apart in Duino.
For nearly two decades, now, every time I have been there it dawns upon me that I don’t really understand my own life.
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Sep 1, 2025
A few weeks ago, at the midtown dive bar where I often have a post-dance nightcap, I saw something terrifying flash across the TV screen.
It started with Pepe the Frog: the cartoon...
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Aug 27, 2025
If I were a trend reporter—which I am not—I would write a piece on the ubiquity of cross necklaces in New York City in summer 2025. They do seem to be everywhere. The...
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Aug 12, 2025
1.My main reaction to Self-Made was annoyance that you stole, stole, my idea — largely through writing it down first and publishing it — which is that...
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May 26, 2025
Even as America welcomes its first native-born Pope, few would question that we live in a secular age. Nearly 30 percent of Americans now call themselves “religiously...
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May 23, 2025
Transgression trends:
The artist formerly known as Kanye West is singing “Heil Hitler” onstage, and launching a “Heil Symphony,” and telling...
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Apr 4, 2025
I promised Santiago I’d stop trying to make every column I write for Wisdom of Crowds somehow about magic. But there’s no way to write about tech...
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Mar 3, 2025
You could make the case that Anora, Sean Baker’s critically-acclaimed anti-Cinderella story, is a movie about exploitation. The protagonist, after all, is a Brighton Beach...
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Jan 30, 2025
We can never escape the world.
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Jan 17, 2025
Some years ago, I dated somebody who matched with me on a dating app because I identified myself as someone to whom religion is important. He had specifically searched for someone to...
Nov 6, 2025It started with the memes. People in the online know were all reading the tweets of Bronze Age Pervert. Quoting from neo-Nietzschean joke-manifesto Bronze Age Mindset was a...
Sep 29, 2025More than once, my life has fallen apart in Duino. For nearly two decades, now, every time I have been there it dawns upon me that I don’t really understand my own life.
Sep 1, 2025A few weeks ago, at the midtown dive bar where I often have a post-dance nightcap, I saw something terrifying flash across the TV screen. It started with Pepe the Frog: the cartoon...
Aug 27, 2025If I were a trend reporter—which I am not—I would write a piece on the ubiquity of cross necklaces in New York City in summer 2025. They do seem to be everywhere. The...
Aug 12, 20251.My main reaction to Self-Made was annoyance that you stole, stole, my idea — largely through writing it down first and publishing it — which is that...
May 26, 2025Even as America welcomes its first native-born Pope, few would question that we live in a secular age. Nearly 30 percent of Americans now call themselves “religiously...
May 23, 2025Transgression trends: The artist formerly known as Kanye West is singing “Heil Hitler” onstage, and launching a “Heil Symphony,” and telling...
Mar 3, 2025You could make the case that Anora, Sean Baker’s critically-acclaimed anti-Cinderella story, is a movie about exploitation. The protagonist, after all, is a Brighton Beach...
Jan 30, 2025We can never escape the world. 
Jan 17, 2025Some years ago, I dated somebody who matched with me on a dating app because I identified myself as someone to whom religion is important. He had specifically searched for someone to...