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You Are Not an Ape-Brained Meat Sack April 25, 2025
On November 6, 2024, the day after Donald Trump’s election victory, “the term ‘darkest timeline’ trended in Google searches, and several physicists posted musings on social media about whether we were actually in it.” So wrote George Musser in Scient...
How the WWE Stopped Being Great Again April 17, 2025
WWE has mastered a nifty magic trick. The company simultaneously announces record revenues while its flagship event, WrestleMania 41, struggles to sell tickets for the upcoming Easter weekend. This isn't merely growing pains from a corporate transiti...
Brian Tyree Henry Has Been Doing the Work April 15, 2025
Brian Tyree Henry is accustomed to portraying characters who are shouldering some massive burden. He broke out in Atlanta, in which he played Alfred “Paper Boi” Miles, a drug-dealer-turned-rapper forced to reckon with the dangers of his old life and ...
Why National Parks Matter April 11, 2025
The National Parks System has long been dubbed “America’s Best Idea.” Many other societies around the world—free and otherwise—have gone much further with the idea that the public sector can and should provide goods to the public, from Britain’s Nati...
William and Henry James April 04, 2025
When Henry James decided to come to America in 1904 and 1905, his elder brother, William James, was not immediately pleased. William said that while his wife, Alice, would welcome his visit (she and Henry had a firm bond), he felt “more keenly a good...
Confessions of a Once-Bearded Lady April 01, 2025
I started to grow a beard when I was around fourteen. It didn’t happen overnight, no Kafkaesque horror. It was slow and steady, more terrifying by half. My gender identity did not match this physical manifestation.I fought it as hard as I could with ...
