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We Drank the Anti-Woke Beer August 21, 2023
Take a spin through the conservative media ecosystem — or listen to most of the Republican presidential primary field — and you’ll learn one major takeaway: The “woke mind virus” has fully infected America’s largest corporations. A non-exhaustive lis...
When the Winds Turn August 08, 2023
German director Christian Petzold’s tenth feature film, Afire—which premiered this year in Berlin and has now arrived in American theaters—dramatizes with understated intelligence the kind of psycho-social tension that, in the age of pandemics and cl...
The Great Light Beer War of 2023 May 22, 2023
I wasn’t going to watch it. I was going to sit this one out. But I’m a big fan of Broad City, so I did it. I clicked the Miller Lite ad featuring Ilana Glazer that was making the rounds on Twitter. I will do my best to explain what this ad consists o...
Sell Me a Story May 10, 2023
Earlier this year, Anheuser-Busch sent personalized cans of Bud Light to the transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney, who then promoted the product on social media. A backlash ensued. The company swiftly pivoted, releasing a new ad about “the American ...
"Swamp Story" by Dave Barry May 08, 2023
Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times bestselling author and actual Florida Man Dave Barry returns with a Florida caper full of oddballs and more twists and turns than a snake slithering away from a gator.Jesse Braddock is trapped in a tiny cabin dee...
Central Europe Has Shaped Our Culture For Centuries May 03, 2023
It is easy to overlook the importance of Central Europe, writes Martyn Rady at the start of this fascinating book. For some modern writers the region is best typified by similarities, or differences, over postboxes, popular preferences for spirits ov...
The New Vocabulary of Beer December 05, 2022
The days of simply deciding between an IPA and a lager are gone. Now, it’s deciding between a high-density, hop-charged IPA with Thiolized yeast and a side-pull Czech-style pilsner in a mlíko pour. “We’re evolving the ingredients we use, we’re evolvi...
Bottled and Unsalivated September 19, 2022
In all of the English language is there a more pleasantly elastic phrase than these three simple words: “a few beers”? I doubt it. Drawing on approximately sixty-five years of beer drinking experience (having recently turned seventy-eight), I have u...
Shane Gillis Is Going Places September 06, 2022
It is a hot summer night at the truck warehouse that is home to Magooby’s Joke House, and 2014’s Baltimore New Comedian of the Year is in need of another cold Bud Light.Shane Gillis, the Pennsylvania man who was nowhere close to a household name unti...
It Cures What Ales You August 08, 2022
Camper English’s new book Doctors and Distillers is the kind of summer read that cries out to be enjoyed with a spirit or cocktail in hand. An appropriate choice would be a small glass of Chartreuse. This potent elixir, inspired by a manuscript from ...
A Short History of Drunkenness by Mark Forsyth June 01, 2018
The pleasure of the micro-history is the chance to view the complex chaos of the past through a narrow lens. In “A Short History of Drunkenness,” Mark Forsyth takes the tendency to endearing extremes: The very origin of the species, he reports, comes...
