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I haven't been trying to have many Pandemic Thoughts this spring. I am annoyed by the NOTHING WILL EVER BE THE SAME AGAIN hot-take business. For the first time, I agreed with something Mark Lilla wrote (which was itself a simple statement of the obvious...

My husband sold this movie to me as explaining America, because he knows I am a sucker for anything that aims at this noble purpose. Then he revised his assessment and suggested it predicts Trump because it depicts the simmering class war between college...

A claim we have disputed here recently: meritocracy makes those at the top into particularly insufferable assholes. Sayeth a tenured Harvard professor: Meritocracies also produce morally unattractive attitudes among those who make it to the top. The...

The FB posts about being "approached" in stores and parking lots by threatening strangers have not only continued but gained momentum. Utopia is apparently experiencing a veritable epidemic of thwarted kidnappings and assaults. The new trope is "foreign...

In many ways, the claims DBrooks recites here about the collapse of the nuclear family are obvious. It's open to all, who can afford the childcare costs. And then, once you can afford them, you don't see your kids anymore and instead of an extended family...