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Capitalism Has Killed the Humanities February 04, 2025

Unsurprisingly, after 25 years of destruction to the humanities in the name of equity, and the ease with which identitarian requirements and interdicts of the academe have prevailed in the corporate world, many conservatives are now reconsidering the...

I Gave Up My Smartphone for a Dumbphone. You Can, Too. February 03, 2025

I was on a mission, biking around to post fliers for my latest tech downgrading event. “Want to ditch your smartphone?” they asked in bold capitals. “Want to leave social media? Spend less time on screens?”...

Puzder On Stakeholder Capitalism January 22, 2025

Andrew Walworth spoke to Andrew F. Puzder about his new book, "A Tyranny for the Good of its Victims: The Ugly Truth about Stakeholder Capitalism," which makes the case that BlackRock, State Street, Vanguard, and other large asset managers have impos...

The Sordid Scene January 14, 2025

A thirty-something indie rocker gallantly holds the hair back for his much younger girlfriend as she rails a line of coke off the coffee table in the opening moments of Matthew Gasda’s gleeful, scathing play Dimes Square. The pair flirt, bicker, talk...

On (Not Quite) Making It January 02, 2025

In 1967, Norman Podhoretz, then the 34-year-old editor of Commentary, published a memoir, Making It, in which he confessed to a powerful drive for status, money, and other conventional forms of success. What’s more, he asserted that other New York in...